11.   The meetings Monday on the surface were unpromising, with the leaders of the two sides trading verbal jabs between sessions.

12.   The rival teams, however, have managed to trade verbal jabs.

13.   The traders, meanwhile, exchange playful verbal jabs at each other under the watchful eye of a Beavis and Butt-Head poster.

14.   Their fathers have spent three decades exchanging verbal jabs outside the ring and punches inside it.

15.   These big-money players, whose personalities have often led to verbal jabs and not-so-friendly bickering, have finally arrived at an accord.

16.   This season, Ryan threw a verbal jab at Los Angeles Rams assistant Joe Vitt.

17.   Those are the things Boston should worry about, Sullivan says, not honing verbal jabs to throw at defensive backs.

18.   Yes, you can choose a candidate to support without seeing him trade verbal jabs with his opponent in one of these made-for-television encounters.

19.   But on Saturday he took a verbal jab at Williams.

20.   Da Silva took a verbal jab after the race.