How to Use barb in a Sentence

barb

noun

• His method is to push down the barb below the flesh, loop the shoestring around the hook and yank fast.
  — John Goodspeed, San Antonio Express-News, 24 June 2021
• Valle has long tried to work out a fight with Estrada and the two have exchanged barbs.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2024
• The battle lines are drawn, the paranoia is growing, and the barbs are flying.
  — Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
• Sweaters, swim trunks and strands of T-shirts hang from the wires’ pointed barbs, signs of where migrants were snagged by the wire.
  — USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• Irwin died in 2006 after he was struck in the heart by the barb of a stingray off the coast of northern Australia.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 31 Dec. 2021
• What has the season been like for the girl who’s third in the nation in scoring yet hears barbs from players and fans?
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
• The Joker barb is, no doubt, a reference to being called a clown act.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 31 Oct. 2022
• Caruso had a special barb for each of those who came after him.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
• At a show in Dublin, Healy responded to Gallagher’s barbs.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 8 June 2023
• There appeared to be some more direct barbs aimed at Babyface and his team, too.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2023
• Then maybe Claremont’s coaches would shoot a barb from across the table about some no-call from the night before.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
• Musk and Zuckerberg are trading barbs The light ribbing turned feistier over the past weekend.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 10 July 2023
• The two have traded barbs over the other's snub of critical GOP voters.
  — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 14 July 2023
• Your favorite anti-L.A. barb may not be here, for there are hundreds of these slings and slaggings.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Logan throws this barb at Shiv in front of Tom’s face in season one, just a few episodes before their wedding.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• Abbott and Patrick traded barbs, and the governor used his pen to veto more than 70 bills, most of them from the Senate.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 6 July 2023
• Be sure to cramp down the barb on your hooks to facilitate releasing hooked trout.
  — cleveland, 9 Dec. 2021
• Steve tragically died in 2006 after being pierced in the chest by a stingray barb.
  — Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2021
• Each word might spring the narrator into a new scene or tangent — or serve as a barb to hang her up for a page or paragraph.
  — Lynn Steger Strong, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• Wohler smiled again at that great moment: A lefty hopeful getting a gentle barb from the greatest lefty ever to take a mound.
  — Star Tribune, 8 Feb. 2021
• This isn’t the first time Isbell has traded barbs with another musician on the app.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2023
• Responding firefighters found a catfish barb lodged in the child’s chest about 1 to 1.5 inches deep.
  — Kaitlyn Alanis, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2022
• But as Nicky says in the kind of barb the film could have used more of, giving up his acting career would require having had a career to begin with.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
• Clark and Reese, two of the (rightfully) most confident players on a court, were expected to trade barbs.
  — Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• While the conflict may have taken a dark and personal turn, violent threats haven’t (yet) made their way into the barbs.
  — C. Brandon Ogbunu, WIRED, 6 May 2024
• There have been angry barbs tossed over the future of Taiwan and stealthy balloons sent over the North American landmass.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
• The mayor’s reelection campaign sent me a seven-page, point-by-point response with some sharp barbs.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2024
• As the politicians traded barbs over who was to blame, migrants were still making the dangerous journey into the U.S.
  — Seung Min Kim, arkansasonline.com, 1 Mar. 2024
• On the show, discussions about the artists’ barbs at each other are dissected with childlike awe and a layer of concern.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• It's been a wild few months for Drake, Kendrick Lamar and rap fans in general, as the two rappers have traded barbs (and bars) over the last several weeks in a beef that has grown more serious than many expected.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 6 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024