How to Use take a swipe at in a Sentence

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• Harden tried to take a swipe at Gordon’s face, setting Gordon off.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2025
• In a series of posts on July 4, Aiyuk appeared to take a swipe at Daniels.
  — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 27 July 2026
• Big Kat Bryant didn’t shy away from an opportunity to take a swipe at his former team.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 3 Aug. 2021
• Gordon stepped in before Harden appeared to take a swipe at Gordon.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025
• James’ tweet did not actually take a swipe at all officers but was responding to the Columbus case.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• Bully Boy will continue to attack Phoebe, and sometimes other cats will see what’s going on and take a swipe at her, too.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 13 June 2024
• On January 7, Newsom appeared to take a swipe at Trump in a press conference on the state of the fires and winds.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
• Xi also appeared to take a swipe at the United States over the collapse of its effort to build a democracy in Afghanistan.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 22 Sep. 2021
• Kimmel has joked about the 2022 moment, when Will Smith took to the stage to take a swipe at Chris Rock.
  — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2023
• Rendon looks to have grabbed the fan's shirt near his chest through the bars of the railing and exchanged words with him before appearing to take a swipe at the bill of the man's ballcap and walking into the tunnel.
  — Tim Booth, ajc, 4 Apr. 2023
• Rendon looks to have grabbed the fan’s shirt near his chest through the bars of the railing and exchanged words with him before appearing to take a swipe at the bill of the man’s ballcap and walking into the tunnel.
  — Tim Booth, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
• That move prompted Oregon coach Dan Lanning to take a swipe at Colorado earlier this week when asked for his reaction to it.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• Why would the sideline reporter — in this case, CBS’ excellent Aditi Kinkhabwala — set him up to take a swipe at a teammate?
  — Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
• Cannes has been a bastion of the cinematic experience and Östlund used his time at the microphone on opening night to take a swipe at the new way of distributing entertainment.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 16 May 2023