Not only had Dunstan won the verbal skirmish, he was clinching the victory.

The place was crowded and noisy enough to cover a minor verbal skirmish.

I warmed to the verbal skirmish, beginning to feel relieved.

Baseball's club owners and players don't have to sit across the bargaining table from each other to initiate a verbal skirmish, their representatives demonstrated again yesterday.

And Niall encouraged her in their verbal skirmishes with scandalous remarks bordering on the outrageous.

At that point, most of the occupants of the land left, with a few verbal skirmishes reported.

He had no desire to engage in verbal skirmishes.

It was the last verbal skirmish she and Lee would ever have.

When weighed against her precarious health, their verbal skirmishes seemed petty.

It was as if these verbal skirmishes had a deeper meaning.