Example sentences for: cribbing

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

  • The prolific Scottish author of more than 100 books, Mackay is accused of cribbing passages of his newest work, I Have Not Yet Begun To Fight: A Life of John Paul Jones . Publication of this biography of another Scottish-born subject, set for next month by the Atlantic Monthly Press, has been put off.

  • Only Thomas Friedman ( Washington Week in Review ) came to the studio prepared, cribbing from his next day's New York Times column: According to a popular one-liner in Jakarta, the ruling Suharto family, which owns toll roads, banks, and other businesses, "[has] everything--but a sense of shame."

  • Cuts down on stall boredom, cribbing, weaving, and chewing.

  • Lest you think that Dubya has cornered the market on this form of cribbing, the piece reports that in 1996, the ranks of Clinton-Gore donors included an 11-year-old.


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