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

Gunderson said the self-deprecating gibes emerged from a character “she was using as a position of power to comment on the plight of woman.”

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023

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

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

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