barb

Example Sentences

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One barb often circulated online skewers Katz with the ultimate diss for clueless interlopers: “Rob Katz skis in jeans.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Reba’s dig at Stracke’s son was the sort of casual, unthinking barb that plenty of Southern mothers have perfected, tossed into a group conversation as nonchalantly as a request for sweet tea.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025

Lennon riposte was How Do You Sleep? on the Imagine album, with its barb "The only thing you done was yesterday / And since you've gone you're just another day."

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2024

On the other side of the Atlantic, near Gambia, a worker from Senegal on a Chinese trawler called the Victory 205 said he had been pricked by a catfish barb while wearing flip-flops.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2023

Her words sank into him like a barb and dragged him toward valor.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks