Example sentences for: ribbing

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

  • Later I took my share of ribbing from fellow residents for "going meddie" at dinner.

  • Similarly, Restoration Hardware calls itself a hardware store and stocks a few items that might legitimately be termed hardware--multiple-head carbine screwdrivers, fold-up pliers, flashlights with old metallic ribbing, etc.

  • In one place he shows how the rhetorical shape of a passage in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , with its paired images and a ribbing of parallel verbs, finds a visual counterpoint in works of landscape design and even dance notation.

  • Gore did not seek a higher student office, perhaps because of the ribbing he took from friends, like suitemate Tommy Lee Jones, who declared that student government was "high school."


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast