Example sentences for: ribald

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

  • 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."

  • The domain is a prolific nursery of such linguistic fig-leaves, and as a result (contrary thing that human nature is) has also fostered many ribald versions.

  • ' That might work for you, but I would forget the sentence (especially Absalom, my main association with the name being with Chaucer's ribald Miller's Tale ).

  • 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."

  • 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.


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