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

More often the gibes between Biden and McCarthy have followed the conventions of election-year politics, focused on each other’s policy positions, not character or personal issues.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2023

“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

To judge by the tape, Ai withstood gibes and assaults with patience.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin