backchat

Example Sentences

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Any backchat on the field is given a 10-metre move penalty.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2022

And if you’re a person like my own mother, who would never permit such backchat in her house, mazel tov.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022

Writing in the first person as Nikki, he has created a character who peppers the patriarchy with rapid-fire volleys of backchat.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2019

"I so despised the backchat that I heard in relation to Bring Up the Bodies," she says, wrinkling her nose.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2013

Thus have I written online about the exaltations and lamentations of parenthood: potty training, ruined sleep, baffling toddler backchat.

From Time • Feb. 1, 2013