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Example sentences for "jibe"

Lexicographically close words:
jiang; jib; jibbeh; jibbing; jibboom; jibed; jibes; jibing; jibs; jico
  1. Or if you did venture a bit jibe when you met him, he glowered you off the face of the earth with thae black een of his.

  2. It was Gilmour's jibe at the House wi' the Green Shutters that would anger him the most, for it's the perfect god of his idolatry.

  3. Frank had learned that to jibe a boat is to turn her around stern to wind, instead of head-on, which is the usual way, and scrambling forward with Harry he helped lower the peak.

  4. Yes, by the wit of a fool, I'll indulge the jest, a joyous jibe and a merry.

  5. By these petty means I gained a cheap applause from the belles and gallants at Sceaux, and Jerome opened not his lips to jibe me, as I feared, but like the rest, applauded.

  6. But now cooking and serving meals did not exactly jibe with Eph's present position aboard the "Benson" Eph was really first officer or mate.

  7. Late hours, except on duty, don't jibe with our line of work.

  8. Experts only jibe in light winds, and frequently lower the peak, so as to reduce sail, before attempting a jibe.

  9. I'll jibe her and get that mains'l inboard!

  10. We'll jibe her over on the other tack and get to work on that salt which has shifted up inside her port top-sides.

  11. She was right in the Nannie O's way, and to save the steamer and themselves from a collision and certain loss of life, Ohlsen had to jibe the Nannie O, and so suddenly that the Nannie O's gaff broke under the strain.

  12. Down with your balloon there--and at the wheel there, jibe her over.

  13. Thinks I, ''Tis a new way to jibe a vessel over.

  14. They're to be described as tricky, especially when you jibe them going free, but when you jam them on the wind they'll beat anything.

  15. But eventually there are going to be cases where reality doesn't jibe with what he's been taught, aren't there?

  16. The possible jibe at Twelfth Night in Every Man out of his Humour (iii.

  17. Looking through the hole he and Pickle Herring jibe at each other.

  18. More probably her actions will move him to jeer and jibe at her.

  19. He meant each jibe to hurt, and probably succeeded, but Watts was too despondent, and Hozier and De Sylva too self-controlled, to say aught that would add to their difficulties.

  20. Even Coke withheld some jibe at the unfortunate mate's expense.

  21. How life never drew near him, how he ever saw it through the film of his latest theory, and tried to order his own, as well as everybody else's life, to jibe with it.

  22. The old cook couldn't realize a peculiarity of the Anglo-Saxon temperament--that those they rail against and jibe at they love the most!

  23. What I am getting at, this box doesn't jibe with my picture of the inside.

  24. You say that does not jibe with the chart that you have here that you brought with you of boxes that you had inside.

  25. Yes, sir; don't jibe with that box there.

  26. The deil's Tam and the English trooper had never since their meeting ceased the jibe and the keen retort; but Tam's words were so provokingly severe, that the moss-man was driven beyond all further forbearance.

  27. Tam, it is weel kend your tongue is nae scandal; but dinna ye lippen ower muckle to your privilege; gin ye be come to quarter wi' me, dinna let me hear sic a hard jibe as that the night again.

  28. Afrites jealous, that they send thee to jibe me?

  29. We shall probably jibe round the next bend," and buried his head in the locker.

  30. Peter wondered rather irritably if he did this on purpose whenever a jibe loomed ahead.

  31. I have been led into walks of life that do not accurately jibe with the pious experiences of former days.

  32. We thought it was some jibe about the fat pork, and after he had sprung it every day for a week we learned that he was hitting at the monotony of the diet.

  33. We would jibe one another, laugh at a fellow to his chagrin, and when we were angry bawl each other out unmercifully.

  34. I've jibe and joke (SONG) Point POINT I've jibe and joke And quip and crank For lowly folk And men of rank.

  35. But it will be seen that Judas carefully closed every door against his Lord's escape, and seized Him with something very like a jibe on his recreant lips.

  36. They could not know one and not the other, but the boastful wisdom of this world, so ready to point a jibe by quoting Moses, had never truly grasped the meaning of the writer it appealed to.

  37. Jean, who was full of saucy words at other times and in other company, at this moment, when she would have given all her small possessions for the power to throw one jibe at him, could not find a word to say.

  38. A deliberate or planned jibe is always controlled, and it’s a perfectly safe and easy maneuver.

  39. I should have said an accidental jibe instead of an uncontrolled one,” Jerry said.

  40. Anyway, a jibe is one thing I won’t let happen again.

  41. A jibe can only happen when you’ve got the wind at your back.

  42. When the wind is strong, an uncontrolled jibe like the one we just took can split your sails, or ruin your rigging, or even snap your boom or your mast.

  43. If you don’t want to alter your course, then you have to do a deliberate jibe and alter the direction of the sail.

  44. Remembering the terrific force of the jibe on the first day’s sailing, though, Sandy knew enough not to be fooled by appearances.

  45. What if they were to jibe now, as they had on the first day’s sail?

  46. For once Sandy forgot his malicious jibe at the loafer's expense.

  47. But his jibe was quite lost on the angry Sunny, for he had left him with the haste of a man driven to fear of whither his anger might carry him.

  48. I knew that all this trouble had been put in the paper with his name and mine, but this here name of Martha Jeffcourt at the bottom didn't seem to jibe with it.

  49. Frank was too excited to notice that she now put the whole blame of the sudden violence of the last jibe on him.

  50. If we don't we'll have to jibe immediately.

  51. Now, Cousin Frank, we'll have to jibe again to get down there.


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