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How to use gibe in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word gibe? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
She crossed her arms across her chest with a defiant look as if expecting him to gibe her.
Gospel writer John's point in putting this line in Jesus' mouth is almost certainly to take a gibe at the Temple elite.
Voltaire's gibe about the Holy Roman Empire was literally true but, like all such glib gibes missed the essential point.
Kelly concludes with a gibe at his colleagues' casual derogation of the blogs.
The gibe could not be further off the mark, for he is in fact a very proud Jew.
It is all very well for Tariq Ali to gibe at India's neo-liberal economics, but this, alas, is the only show in town.
The jib or projecting arm of a crane probably derives from gibbet, and gibe and gybe are often written jibe.
Judith couldn't resist the gibe and regretted it as soon as Emma rounded on her.
A bid for a permanent seat on the Security Council does not gibe with the true picture of Japan's nature at all.
But I suspect it was simply an insult, perhaps in retaliation for Miliband's mild earlier gibe at Paxman's importance.
Today one can easily gibe at the show's glaring seams and stitches.
Britain can help other non-euro countries who gibe at the new treaty's strictures as well as euro-zone countries that want to resist protectionism or over-regulation including Germany.
Calves and ankles: it is necessary to consider the calves and the ankles together to keep a harmonious line since a thick ankle upon a very fine calf would gibe an awkward look.
Examples from Classical Literature
Stilling himself relates how, when one at the table directed a gibe at him, it was Goethe who rebuked the railer.
But even that gibe hinted at a recklessness that matched her own and gave her comfort now.
To shock the one or gibe at the other were a blasphemy he simply couldn't contemplate.
I felt sure he was seeking for some gibe, could think of none, and so was forced to silence.
How dare you gibe at Agamemnon because the Danaans have awarded him so many prizes?
John, inordinately grateful at this recognition of himself as an Harrovian, forgave the gibe.
He was a slow-witted man, and he could devise no ready answer, no such cutting gibe as it would have pleasured him to administer.
The maids looked at one another and laughed, while pretty Melantho began to gibe at him contemptuously.
He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer.
Those who do not know us gibe at us and throw our sins in our teeth.
There came a new note into the woman's voice as she answered the gibe.
Come, before he comes to gibe us for having heeded a moment.
But not even that gibe could stir M. Binet out of his lethargy of content.
This gibe subtly acknowledged the garrison state conditions in which the Salt Lake City Olympics were held.
She smiled to cover her shyness, and I fancied she had a fear that I would make the sort of gibe that such a confession could hardly have failed to elicit from Rose Waterford.
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