Example sentences for: cribbed

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

  • It can appropriate pieces of its victims' anatomies in an effort to reconstitute itself (an idea cribbed from Clive Barker's 1987 Hellraiser --but less gorily executed, for the sake of a kiddie-friendly PG-13).

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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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