Sentence examples for the barb from inspiring English sources
noun
The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
Worker bees' stingers are barbed; once they sting a target, the barb catches and pulls the stinger from their abdomen, killing the worker.
Barack Obama assumed the barb was aimed at him.
The barb about suicide in Buffalo may be another.
The barb left a stain that Ali would never quite erase, despite his later apology.
He believes the Barb panel within the capital is too small, creating an inbuilt bias, and offers these arguments as a counter to the Barb ratings: 1.
Plastic bags impaled on the barb fences flapped in the hot wind.
Walter McQuade's dismissal of the hotel in The Nation was the barb that stuck.
A tad harsh, I thought - but I can understand what prompted the barb.
And then the barb: "If you play rugby league, your away game is Campbelltown".
London Live's chief executive, Andrew Mullins, is unconvinced by the Barb figures.
But when Pete Seeger recorded the song in 1963, the barb stuck in Levittown.
