Sentence examples for making a dig from inspiring English sources

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Leigh couldn't resist making a dig in his acceptance speech at Venice: "I would like to thank most sincerely the Cannes film festival for rejecting this film".

The comment garnered criticism on Twitter, from people who thought she was making a dig at fellow nominee Meryl Streep.

With a title like that, we wondered if the 24-year-old DJ was making a dig at how formulaic EDM can be.

The audience at Carey's press conference erupted in laughter, but Carey later denied that she was making a dig at Kim. "First of all, I don't read the tabloids unless it's about me," she told Extra.

They were down on all fours, spinning in a circle, something that's probably not going to make them better football players, but we needed to kill time, and my position coach, who clearly hadn't heard yet, yells out loud from probably 40 feet away while this kid's down on all fours, "Yeah, this is Sims' favorite drill!" thinking he was just making a dig on me.

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The Trinity Mirror-owned Sunday People used the episode to make a dig at its red-top rival on Twitter.

"We're going to make a Dig Dug II joke and have a character make a reference to Mr Garrett [from the Facts of Life].

He plays below the belt, makes a dig about her father, calls her "female", a loaded pejorative that means to diminish her shine and skill.

Fast Company magazine made a dig at rivals Business Week, Forbes Fortune and Business 2.0 last week when it announced the hiring of two editors.

6.51pm: Nesbitt makes a dig about TV programmes attracting new audiences to theatre, and then one about John Barrowman's ubiquity and homosexuality, which is clearly very very funny.

She appeared to make a dig at Hillary Clinton's age, asking "is Hillary a New Democrat, or an old one?" She told Republicans that they were engaged in "a war", adding that Republicans "don't sit on our thumbs".

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