Sentences with phrase «little barbs»

Their tongues have little barbs that help them to groom, but also cause them to swallow a lot of fur.

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

In one battle, they've had to put up with little barbs from players and fans of Auburn, a team that lost four games.

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.

Calling Brolin «Thanos» is a funny little barb, but when Domino asks if it's derivative for Wilson to call his super-group X-Force, it's hard to know if she just means of the X-Men, especially since the crossed - arm gesture he's making feels more like it's ripped off from Black Panther's Wakandan salute — a reference somebody on the film surely could have, and should have acknowledged.

Not exact matches

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.

Lately, though, the little hamlet in the Finger Lakes region of New York has been catching barbs as well as bouquets.

The little «tree» in my hand is a dart head fashioned from creamy - brown chert and bristling with tiny barbs designed to lodge in the flesh of marine prey.

As feathers continued to change, they developed tufts, barbs, branching features, little hooks, and more.

Oddly, there is little dialogue in much of the first half — other than the barks and barbs of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman, viciously and accurately portrayed by Lee Ermey, a real - life leatherneck who spent three years in Vietnam.

Slate has a pinched little voice, a long frizzy mane, and a potty mouth, but her brand of funny is much different than the calculated, grating barbs of someone like Sarah Silverman.

Armed with little more than your wits, you need to escape and work out how to destroy the barb - tailed monstrosity without being pulled kicking - and - screaming into an air vent.

Barbs will pop out and lock it into place after penetrating the skin of the rogue spacecraft, which is a little more than an inch thick.