Sentences with phrase «facing barbs»

Cats have tongues covered with sharp, rearward - facing barbs that can make it extremely difficult to spit out the string.

And, finally, those backward - facing barbs help remove dead hair from the cat's coat.

Quills have microscopic backwards - facing barbs, which means they slide in very easily and are difficult to remove.

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.

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.

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That said, Sanders has been critical of Apple, saying last month that the company should pay its «fair share» of taxes, a barb that Apple has faced in the past over claims it doesn't pay enough taxes in the United States.

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.

'' The expenditure is drawing barbs from the opposition, but the government defends the television and Internet campaign for the budget, which sees Alberta facing a projected $ 10.4 - billion deficit amid economic turmoil caused by low oil prices.

It is not good for any man to receive as many compliments to his face, as many barbs behind his back, as a minister usually gets.

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.

saying Wenger stuck to his guns in the face of failures in the EPL and CL reads to me like he is aiming a thinly veiled barb ay Wenger refusal to move with time hence his failure.....

By having Hawkins and Libertarian candidate Michael McDermott in the debate, Cuomo hoped to minimize face time for Astorino and his barbs.

In Keenan and Lloyd's world of dizzy, barb - tossing sophisticates, this group is confident and well - armed: Channing's patented ladies - who - lunch tartness, Winkler's nervous defensiveness, Burrell's blasé arrogance, Marshall's droll delivery and Gorham's frustrated sensitivity all mix like a well - shaken cocktail, even if it's the kind that gets tossed in somebody's face.

Although he largely remains calm in the face of considerable provocation, James is someone who can't abide bullshit and in this most postmodern of films that includes traditional filmic pomposity, those moments which seem extraordinary - grand speeches and indulgent anecdotes which he slices through with castrating barbs and withering looks.

«The beast in front of me had the body of a lion, a human face with three rows of very sharp teeth, and a scorpion's tail tipped with a barb the size of an ice pick.»