Sentences with phrase «barbs on»

Intact male cats have rows of tiny, backward - pointing barbs on the head of the penis.

Because of those barbs on that rough tongue, that are so good at removing dead hair, cats find it impossible to spit the hair out.

To keep this coat in tip top condition the cat has developed a highly effective grooming mechanism — a tongue which is very rough with small barbs on the surface so that it works like a comb.

The backward facing barbs on their tongues make it nigh impossible for them to retch, or spit, the string back out.

All cats have backward - facing barbs on their tongues that are used in the wild to rasp meat from the bones of prey.

Cats have little barbs on their tongues, which point backwards, and help push everything down their throats.

Cats's tongues have small barbs on the surface, and they are just as efficient at shaving as an electric razor.

The scientists determined that each feather has a central stem with a number of barbs on each side.

The feather shares characteristics with the plumage that helps modern birds fly, such as longer barbs on one side of the feather's shaft than the other.

Wing lice dine on the same fluffy feathers but spend most of their time on the wings or tail, where they hide in between barbs on the birds» large flight feathers.

Filmmaker Michael Moore and Trump traded barbs on Twitter over Moore's recently - closed solo Broadway show decrying the president.

The Democratic governor and mayor — self - described «friends» who have been openly sniping at each other for months — traded barbs on Tuesday after Cuomo faulted de Blasio for appearing alongside Astorino, the Westchester County executive who ran on the Republican line against Cuomo, during a rally calling for transportation funding.

Though the race only recently got underway, it's already taken a negative turn, which Brindisi and Tenney, who also used to be a member of the Assembly, trading barbs on everything from Brindisi's father's legal representation of mobsters to a town hall the congressman is scheduled to hold this coming Tuesday.

Unlike needles, however, the quills of porcupines have microscopic, backwards - facing barbs on the tip that catch on the skin making them difficult and painful to extract.

As one reviewer mentioned, it is not easy to get at the crab meat, especially without scraping yourself with barbs on the shells.

One of the sadder sights during this election season has been that of intelligent conservative writers trading barbs on social media with witless and malicious (and usually anonymous) Trump supporters.

So far the Apple v. FBI debate has played out at the very highest level, with Apple CEO Tim Cook and FBI Director James Comey trading public barbs on the whether privacy trumps national security or vice versa.

Boeing (ba) and Bombardier (bombf) traded barbs on Monday over the U.S. planemaker's claim that its Canadian rival benefited from billions of dollars in illegal government subsidies and dumped its newest jetliner in the United States at below cost.

an egg laying mammal with a bill and a beavers tail, second eyelids for swimming and a poisonious barb on the males right rear foot... now science tested and found it is a kin to the mole; what does your god say it is?

It was a big hook, almost two inches long, with a big, sharp barb on the end.

Brown was always the coach's coach, a guy seemingly born with a piece of chalk in his hand, a defensive drill at his fingertips and a barb on his tongue.

Not exact matches

Kimmel's monologue on Monday represents the latest in a series of barbs between Kimmel and Hannity, who were embroiled in a Twitter feud earlier this month.

On Monday, The Washington Post published a blog post titled «Why Al Franken makes a weird amount of sense as a 2020 presidential candidate,» positing that the former Saturday Night Live cast member may be the candidate best suited to parlay Trump's barbs.

These comments have included criticism of former Hewlett - Packard CEO Carly Fiorina's face, constant barbs thrown at Fox News» Megyn Kelly, and retweeting an attack on Ted Cruz's wife.

On a testing screen behind Morel, Isa the parrot flies through a jungle in Phantom slow motion, every needle - thin barb of every candy - coloured feather vivid and distinct.

And oh did we ever aspire: the tax cuts were bigger and tastier than we could have imagined; the torch - carrying to further enrich US entertainment companies made us laugh and cry; the barbs thrown at Dalton (the boy can't take a joke); the raid on Conservative Party headquarters.

Hours after trading barbs in the race's first one - on - one debate, Hillary Clinton appears to have put some distance between herself and Trump.

He has directed barbs — in speeches and videos, and on Twitter — especially fervently toward the taxi industry, but also toward city and local regulators across the country (and now the world), his rivals, and sometimes even his own customers when they dare to question his company's practices.

A version of this article appears in print on 08/26/2013, on page B6 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Barbs for Silicon Valley And Some Who Cover It.

On Facebook and Twitter, reactions ranged from gleeful jokes, to political barbs, to conspiracy theories, to patriotism, to pleas for peace, to solemn reflections.

When we got to the hospital he stayed with me the entire time while the doctor cut the barb off the hook, put some topical anesthesia on my thumb and ear, and then pulled the hook free.

Father Joe is a memoir, to be sure, but in the midst of his other obiter dicta on politics and humor, it would have been gratifying to see Hendra begin to forge a few more barbs tipped with a little sub specie aeternitatis, even if they were tossed from left of center.

Bucks usually leap the fence, but does scramble through, sometimes cutting themselves on the barbs.

There is another reason for Wenger to want his rival to stay in charge at Stamford Bridge as well, however, and this is on a more personal note, because the prof must have been loving all the suffering that his serial taunter was going through and was probably looking forward to a few well chosen verbal barbs aimed at the special one.

Let's face it these moaners are out on their own, inspired by their own comments, always looking for any possible negative barb, and revelling in their own self importance.

The media will pounce on every little barb or icy response for the rest of their careers, and some will accuse the press of over-dramatizing the hostilities.

When the players came in around 8 p.m., they indirectly exchanged barbs about the controversy, setting the stage for a tense finish on Sunday morning.

This was painfully the case on Saturday, with ITV managing to lower standards yet further (an impressive feat, considering) with their constant barbs, snide jabs and frankly disrespectful comments about Wenger (and, oddly, Arteta, who they seemed to think was the ghost of Denilson past).

DiNapoli and the Cuomo administration have traded verbal barbs over Tier 6 on several occasions now.

The two have exchanged verbal barbs several times now on the subject of the speaker's refusal to sign the trio of reform pledges sent out by Koch's NY Uprising PAC).

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon on Tuesday delivered a rebuttal at the 118th annual LCA Show in Albany, poking fun at herself and throwing some barbs at Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Nixon's comments are the latest in a string of barbs she's hurled at Cuomo since announcing her campaign on March 19.

After trading barbs with Mayor Bill de Blasio about conditions at NYCHA in recent weeks, Cuomo challenged de Blasio, the City Council and the state Legislature to guide him on how to remedy conditions at NYCHA within two weeks — or said he would take action on his own.

What will he be thinking as the barbs and jibes start raining down on him once more?

A «kinder and gentler» Carl Paladino was on «Good Day NY» this morning and talked of how he feels his campaign has accomplished its goal of «aggravating» his opponent, Andrew Cuomo, by employing personal barbs about things like his «prowess.»

Former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn denies she meant her barb at Cynthia Nixon on Tuesday as an attack on the new gubernatorial candidate's sexual identity.

Latimer and his Republican opponent, Bob Cohen, have traded barbs over Silver's handling of the Lopez mess, with Cohen calling on the speaker to resign and Latimer saying he prefers to wait until JCOPE has completed its investigation before jumping to any conclusions.

Gov. David Paterson this morning traded indirect barbs with PEF President Ken Brynien, all but accusing the labor leader of lying on the airwaves while defending labor's refusal to go along with furloughs, wage freezes and other cost - cutting proposals.

A day after trading barbs with New York City officials, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz held his own rally in Midtown Manhattan Wednesday, where he doubled down on his criticism of Mayor Bill de Blasio and other New York politicians.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D - N.Y.) engaged in a nasty, lone radio debate in her Democratic primary against upstart Reshma Saujani on Tuesday morning, in which the two traded barbs — but managed to up the ante after the event, as the incumbent literally fled from reporters and the challenger said she might not vote in the general election if she loses.