talk back
Example Sentences
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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
He likes to insult people from behind a computer or in a speech, where they can't talk back.
From Salon • Jan. 26, 2024
But until the arrival of the AI chatbot ChatGPT, most people had never actually spoken to it before - or had it talk back.
From BBC • Nov. 18, 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
