backchat

Example Sentences

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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

From 5,000 miles away, they hype up the Guardian, banter and backchat, punctuated by incongruous blasts on the banjo from Martin, aka one-sixth of bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers, who tour with the show.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2019

The Irish-born Reynolds renders this gritty backchat with perfection, ranging from the “meet-my-sinuses accent” of a middle-class aspirant to the officious, singsong delivery of a country-born policeman with a voice “six-foot deep in bog.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2018

It is the individual or group giving the machine a bit of backchat.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 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