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How to use the word name-calling in a Sentence?

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After the president tweeted at me, by name, calling me out the way that he did, the threats became much more specific, much more graphic. And included not just me, by name, but included members of my family, by name, their ages, our address, pictures of our home. Just every bit of detail that you could imagine. That was what changed with that tweet.

Al Schmidt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I pledged to be independent and work with anyone to achieve lasting results. I committed I would not demonize people I disagreed with, engage in name-calling, or get distracted by political drama.

Kyrsten Sinema

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's very nice. There's no name calling.

Cindy Hill

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I tried to kindly and respectfully make things clear, but as things got more and more negative and more and more name calling, I felt that it was really important for people to understand that I have no part in that.

Kelli Davis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That's not a derogatory word, that's not an inflammatory word, that's not commenting on his character, it's not even name-calling, it's what he's charged with.

Assistant State Attorney Nicole Chiappone

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In the politics of the present, where we are into politics of name calling and insult... I think it's probably unwise for The BBC to get ourselves into a position where we're calling out people for being liars or being racist, what is really important is that we look at the things that people say, that we analyze them, that we describe them objectively and as analytically as we can and we call them out for what they are at the time.

David Jordan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When people are at odds, and start name-calling, it's because they have no facts to back up their side of the conversation.

Kathryn Atkins

added by Katryna
5 years ago

The President, like all of us, they see what's happening, you got 800,000 people missing another paycheck, at no fault of their own. It could have a hit on our economy. Nobody is going to win out of this. And I think The President realizes and I hope the speaker of the House and( Senate Minority Leader Chuck) Schumer realize that we've got to get together and put the American people first and name calling second.

Richard Shelby

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Because there was literal name-calling going on in the election cycle, even with students less politically engaged, that strong language and the harsher crassness of the rhetoric may have had a more broad effect on these students. it's not just along ethnic and racial discrimination lines.

Nikki Haley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Right now, the divisiveness, the division, the name calling, it just doesn't go down well with me.

The Ohio governor

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It would be a shame if the Democrats win this election because of all the disputing and name-calling and the way they tend to act during debates.

Debbie Ramsey

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's a lot of rhetoric out there, some of which feels like name-calling, all of which makes the situation read as worse than it used to be.

Nicholas Colas

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It’s all about name calling and bullying and shaming people into shutting up.

Kristen Waggoner

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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