Example sentences for: cribbed

How can you use “cribbed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Fleming's poker face is perfect for making you giggle at offhand insertions of Watergate minutiae or urban-paranoid compositions cribbed from Alan J. Pakula's film of All the President's Men (1976).

  • There are also some scattered minihistories of female desire among Taoists and among the Zunis of New Mexico, which are provocative (a 19 th -century Zuni ceremony celebrating the superiority of the vulva required men to don huge wooden penises) but feel as if they were cribbed in a 45-minute visit to the library.

  • These gardens contain many elements cribbed from nature herself, such as sinuous paths, free-form ponds, curvy clumps of shrubs, and squiggly planting beds.

  • Nor is it a serious critique (or celebration for that matter) of the tabloids, or a Hollywood gossip column lazily cribbed from the pages of other magazines.

  • In last week's column, for example, featuring Felicity 's Keri Russell, the vast majority of Russell's musings were cribbed word for word from a May People magazine story and an August InStyle feature.


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