In the exchange of verbal blows, Ruff had been bested and he knew it.

His head jerked back under her verbal blows.

She and I finally came to verbal blows next to the Apollo spacecraft.

Pipo understood it, was prepared to bend with her verbal blows.

He and Mike had come to verbal blows several times during the battalion's work-up.

Alicia rolled with the verbal blow, hardly blinked.

The best course when Godwin delivered a verbal low blow, Slade had learned, was to ignore it.

(...) I suggest that we not learn from the ways of the Palestinians and speak in verbal blows like these.

Naturally, Bruno took the opportunity to land some verbal blows.

The two come to verbal blows often due to their strong-willed personalities, but eventually begin dating.