Example sentences for: ribald

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

  • La Boqueria is also a startlingly vibrant community, where shoppers and merchants greet each other by name, ribald sallies across the aisles set off gales of laughter, and the freshness of the rape (an angler fish popular in Catalonia) is debated with the passion of a traffic mishap.

  • Republicans pledged allegiance to the rule of law, while Democrats characterized the proceedings as a coup d'etat . The most ribald zinger of the day belongs to Constance Morella (R-Maryland), who says that Clinton's legacy "shall be indelibly stained."

  • Last week we challenged you to link from the Off-Color Turkish Page (which features a mildly ribald definition of the term "frikik") to FIFA's official definition of a soccer free kick in 15 steps or less.

  • His or her duties include converting all public remarks by the speaker of the House into iambic pentameter (rhyming optional); composing ribald limericks about any lawsuits filed against the president for sexual harassment; and debating the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about whether a poem is lovely as a tree.

  • Parker and Stone (and screenplay collaborator Pam Brady) have concocted nothing less than an 80-minute Swiftian epic--a ribald, hyperbolic satire of the notion that movies "warp our fragile little minds."


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