talk back
Example Sentences
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"He was just so domineering and you just couldn't talk back to him," she added.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026
The excited audience, eager to talk back to the characters, disrupted the performers’ timing.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024
“My experience, after 54 years of doing this stuff, is that the cops don’t like when you talk back that way,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2024
The elephants were also quicker to talk back when the recordings were of others calling their names, as opposed to when researchers played recordings of non-name elephant chatter.
From Salon • Nov. 17, 2023
He forbade anyone to talk back to him and could tolerate no opposition; he viewed the slightest disagreement as a provocation.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
