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 robot is convenient, it doesn’t talk back or anything.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025
“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
According to my mother, I was the only person in the family to talk back to Dandy when he yelled.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
