Example sentences for: ribs

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

  • Maybe it was too much picturing-- The sheared wing thrust from the sea, Torsos afloat like hand puppets in a tub, The grim business of the divers, nosing through The ribs of Business and Coach--that brought on This nosebleed hampering me all morning.

  • Occasionally other defects were noted in the embryos, chiefly fused ribs, these defects were not appreciable and did not impact the vertebral arch analysis.

  • The ribs of the cathedral’s high vault are joined at carved and painted keystone medallions, a typically Catalan feature.

  • A man's a man for all that and what a piece of work is man and God saw fit that man should not be without his keepmate and took out his ribs to make his woman.

  • Some critics praise the film for featuring a hard-working family instead of Hollywood's usual black "pimps and junkies" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Others say it just replaces a negative stereotype with a schmaltzy one: "[I]t pushes emotional buttons with all the subtlety of a poke in the baby-back ribs" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Photos and the like are available here.)


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