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Example sentences for: jabs

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Under the fold, the Post calls a foul on Bill Bradley for reneging on his promise to play a chivalrous campaign game; the Democratic hopeful has taken verbal jabs at his competitor Al Gore recently.
Kristol and both Carlsons--Tucker and Margaret--blame Seattle's mayor for treating the protestors with kid gloves ("a weak mayor of Seattle, I'm afraid, a kind of cappuccino sipper," jabs Tucker Carlson).
Barney Frank (the top Democrat) announced the decision at a press conference, after which the two traded partisan jabs.
But what we like about Frank is that he takes his sharpened pencil and jabs into politicians the same way that he would a third-rate revival.
But our anti-Southern jabs, above, are more than the ordinary scorn of neighbor vs. neighbor, more than urban vs. rural.