Example sentences for: cribs

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

  • Emmerich cribs his basic suspense techniques (the low-angle camera riding in on open-mouthed spectators) from Spielberg's Jaws and Jurassic Park , his egg imagery from Alien , his marauding baby dinosaurs from Gremlins , and a scene of the U.S.

  • All cribs sold in reputable stores meet current safety standards, so no worries in that regard.

  • And the others expired at home, just infants, in their cribs, where Noe said she found them blue and either limp or gasping.

  • The "Good Times" e-mail cribs its evolutionary strategy from the old postal chains: "A Utah man received this letter and threw it away.

  • Like the '80s activists who used the phrase "economic democracy" as their euphemism for socialism, Rosen cribs the word "democracy" to serve as a vague stand-in for the Deweyan utopia he wants us to build.


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