gibes
Example Sentences
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With the extent of that perceived boost now in question, some of those same figures greeted Biden’s announcement with veiled and not-so-veiled gibes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2024
There’s a scattershot quality to the gibes and insufficient development of its central idea, that of a woman aspiring to the life and renown of a dramatist.
From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2022
“Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2022
Mankiewicz was a hard-drinking transplant from New York, a former journalist and member of the Algonquin Round Table, but he moved through studio circles, trading gibes and gambling debts with writers, producers and executives.
From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2020
Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs? jimmy snyder.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
