Sentence examples for multiple barbs from inspiring English sources

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By rubbing their hind legs against their abdomen, the tarantulas can kick off a cloud of these tiny hairs, which have multiple barbs and can cause tremendous irritation in the eyes, skin and airways of any unfortunate creature that happens to get too close.

Unlike an analog conversation, which might hook you emotionally one part at a time, social media feeds offer multiple barbs per page.

While the former have multiple barbs that occur naturally on the plant material (as in the blackberry tools used by woodpecker finches [ 3]), the latter have a single terminal hook that is actively crafted by the bird [ 1, 4], representing the only known example of hook production by a non-human species [ 5].

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At 44, the Crocodile Hunter died after being struck multiple times by a stingray barb while filming in waters off Port Douglas in far north Queensland.

However, other accessions of S. verticillata are placed elsewhere, and the authors suggest that this is caused either by the multiple origins of the polyploid and/or homoplasy in the distinguishing characteristic of the retrorse barbs on the sterile bristles in the inflorescence.

Barb is still beautiful, even without hair, and her smile still lights up a room, despite multiple phases of brutal chemotherapy, surgery, and intense radiation.

Instead, countries traded barbs.

The two trade barbs.

The barbs hurt.

These are well-aimed barbs.

He still draws barbs.

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