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Example sentences for "gibed"

Lexicographically close words:
gibbet; gibbeted; gibbets; gibbous; gibe; gibes; gibet; gibier; gibing; giblets
  1. Yet now he sat there on his horse--the man whom they believed helpless and stricken--and gibed at them.

  2. Barclay cursed and bit his teeth together as the echo gibed at him from its invisible lurking-place, and then went on, hushing his footsteps so that they should not follow him.

  3. Whereat Sir Beverley looked at him searchingly, and gibed no more.

  4. She saw the flames leaping all around him, and in the flames were demon-faces that laughed and gibed and jested.

  5. Heavy," gibed Helen Cameron, shaking her head and staring at the other girl.

  6. The cutter fell off until she was dead before the wind, when we gibed her and hauled again to the wind on the starboard tack, so as to cross the ship's stern at a sufficient distance to insure the success of our contemplated manoeuvre.

  7. Of late Maisanguaq had gibed her with her desertion; he was bitter toward her.

  8. The other maidens laughed and gibed at her.

  9. You look as if you were disappointed," gibed Ferd, beginning to recover from his bewilderment.

  10. Only the dark girl, Cicely Elliott, who had gibed at her a week ago, helped her to pin her sleeve that had been torn by a sword-hilt of some man who had turned suddenly in a crowd.

  11. Cicely Elliott sat on a high stool from which she could look out of window and gibed at him as he passed.

  12. Here I have pleaded with you, and you have gibed me with the love of the King.

  13. Cheer up, you hunks of misery," gibed Bart.

  14. They must have been ghosts then," gibed Tom.

  15. Sirr would have only gibed in that a man who was such a rascal should be sighing after an honest wench; so he gave up the blood-money.

  16. He went to see Terence at the provost, and found Curran there, who eyed him with undisguised impertinence, and gibed about gingerbread-nuts.

  17. Each savage gibed at the boy's painted talisman, but each obeyed its message.

  18. And the Lady Mary Percy gibed sweetly at them all, and at the Countess, too; but she gibed most at Sir Aymer de Lacy.

  19. She sat in the stern, waving her hands in helpless terror, and even as the spectators stared, the boat gibed with terrific violence, and a volume of water poured in over the gunwale.

  20. Leaning to one side, with the sudden weight, the boat half turned, and then gibed with terrific violence.

  21. But the worst Things that crowded up and scoffed and gibed were not Things that had to do with enemies.

  22. Now you know why She makes you make the bed over again when it's wrinkly," gibed one Thing.

  23. All he knows is I wrote him I was drawing them to compete for the bridge--which of course was part of my plan to blackmail you," gibed Blake.

  24. Still farther away the crowd surged and laughed and gibed in the darkness.

  25. But he only gibed at me, until I almost died of fear, and then he bade one of his men take me up behind him.

  26. She chaffed and flouted the man who wintered a thousand head of cattle with the same impartiality with which she gibed his blushing cowpuncher.

  27. I thought you liked a swift game," gibed Tinhorn.

  28. The samurai laughed loud at the confession, and gibed at the hapless maid, bandying foul pleasantries.

  29. We are not all so blind as my lord," gibed O'Kiku.

  30. And he's the fellow that they wouldn't let enlist because of his teeth," gibed Bart.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gibed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.