Sentence examples for gag from inspiring English sources

Mitchell did slip in one masturbation gag – it's a Channel 4 show after all – but Shapps got to plug his commitment to build 150,000 new, affordable homes.

The BBC and most of the press pour undiluted praise on the royals while imposing a virtual gag on the views of republicans.

Spero summed it up herself via an image that recurs across the Codex – a disembodied head with a grotesque phallic tongue protruding from its mouth: the organ of speech envisaged partly as a weapon and partly as a gag.

The Daily Iowan reports, under the headline "Appanoose County man claims Romney vote total is wrong," in case you thought that Onion "Area Man" gag was out of date, that a GOP caucus-goer reckons the numbers do lie: Edward L True, of Moulton, claims in an affidavit Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's caucus vote total is wrong.

"Here was this fellow the same age as me who was 10 times smarter and more articulate, was a huge success socially and had strong opinions about writers like Tennyson, which he could back up with a clever gag.

Rupert Murdoch's New York Post was predictably blunter, calling de Blasio a pro-Cuban communist, while the Washington Post got into hot water with a column suggesting "people with conventional views" in other states would have to "repress a gag reflex" when considering him because he was married to an African-American who used to be lesbian.

Patrick Dalton, founder of the widely acclaimed blog and book series Shit London, offers lessons learned on his own project's journey from whimsical Facebook gag to runaway publishing success.

Emailgate is going to be a massive gag topic for Amy and Tina, and I suspect that the tension and hilarity surrounding the inevitable jokes about it might even slightly upstage the main event.

— Kerry McCarthy MP (@KerryMP) May 14, 2014 Tory MP just tapped me on shoulder + said 'Thank you for giving [PM] a chance to get in his gag".

"The department is yet to respond to me and take up the council's offer to discuss a way forward as the gag on the media is unfortunate and should not have happened," said Rheeney, who is also editor-in-chief of the Post Courier.

However, she wilfully ignores what it means to cover schoolgirls' faces: the face-veil is no more just "a scrap of fabric" than a gag is, it is an iconic manifestation of an ideology which holds that women's faces are analogous to their genitals as a source of shame which must be hidden from all men other than their husbands.