How to Use crib in a Sentence

crib

1 of 2 noun
  • The boys slept in one room, the parents and the girls in the other, the youngest child in a crib.
    Nathaniel Rich Stacy Kranitz, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • See her list of the 12 best cribs and the best stroller and car seat combos.
    Lexie Sachs and Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Then, the camera pans out and shows two cribs side-by-side.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Parent Tip: Now is the time to buy a mobile for above the crib.
    Emily Cook, Parents, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The first item on her list was a light-toned wooden crib.
    Melissa Rohman, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • And while the price is steep, remember that this is a bassinet and crib in one.
    Katrina Cossey, Parents, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Her 2-year-old’s day is spent within the bounds of a small room, with just a few toys and a crib.
    Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • All of it was recorded in Budgie’s crib at the time that Zeroh was there.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Infants were snatched from their cribs and found dead in ovens.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2024
  • In March, my wife and I put our daughter into her crib for the first time.
    Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2021
  • And there’s a person in a crib today, who will meet the moment of 20 years from now.
    Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • My parents and brother in a bed, me in my crib, and the 4 ‘tíos’ I am pictured here with.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The crib remains empty, the baby bathtub dry, the swing idle and the stroller folded.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 1 June 2022
  • The dark stain of the wood of the crib matches the side table beside a comfy white reading chair, which sits next to the crib.
    Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The couple told police that the boy sleeps in a crib, which is in their master bedroom.
    Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The other day, the men hauled beds, chairs, tables and a crib up to the second floor of a duplex on the city's northwest side.
    Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • In some of the cases reviewed by NBC News, caregivers placed the loungers inside a crib.
    Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 25 May 2023
  • God Save the Animals was on repeat in my crib and in the studio all year.
    Vulture, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The father of one shared a cute photo of his wife reading a book next to their son, who was in his crib.
    Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 21 June 2021
  • He's been raised in a crib with basketball on his mind, and that's never changed.
    Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Babies put to sleep in their cribs reach out and grab cords dangling from the window blinds above them.
    Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Three belts were found in the room with the victim's crib, according to the court documents.
    The Arizona Republic, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Kuhn spends the wee hours of the morning circling a small metal vat roughly the size of a baby’s crib.
    Jacqueline Kehoe, Saveur, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The crib features two mattress heights with the option to convert to a toddler bed.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 3 Nov. 2023
  • When the Frosty chilled-ren were babies, Frosty and his wife placed a snowmobile over their crib.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Dec. 2023
  • But Hayden’s crib cam was recording all night — and offered a clue.
    Lauran Neergaard, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2024
  • She has been strangled by the inner cord that runs through the center of the window blind behind her crib.
    Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 20 Dec. 2023
  • And so were the blind pigs, the cribs and clubs and after-hours joints that Prohibition set up in business.
    Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Officers found Garcia dead in her bedroom, stabbed over 40 times, next to a crib where the baby was found unharmed.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The music mogul’s seven bedroom, eight bathroom waterfront crib was built in 2002.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
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crib

2 of 2 verb
  • She cribbed a line or two from her favorite poet.
  • To crib a line from Matrix, the work and the hours and the Google spreadsheets go on.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Just knowing Joe planned to crib answers from her test was cause to move to a desk away from him.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com, 22 June 2019
  • To crib an infamous line from Charlie Strong, the cake is baked for Choice.
    Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 18 July 2022
  • Kanye works on a conceptual level in a way that's hard to crib from.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The bass line was cribbed from a charting disco hit, while many of the song’s lyrics were lifted from another MC.
    Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • If you're stumped for names for your baby boy or baby girl, see if any of these names cribbed from the Royals have any appeal.
    Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Conversely, Blackout doesn't crib much from Fortnite's take on the genre.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2018
  • Aalto has been cribbing from his little brother, Hugo, and has 20 e-books.
    Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Arnold lives on in the identical form of Bernard, whose implanted memories of his son are cribbed from Arnold’s.
    Scott Tobias, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • And in a goofy genius move, Toyota cribbed cues from the Bruiser that was introduced in 1985, upsized them, and applied them to the modern truck.
    Davey G. Johnson, Car and Driver, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Facebook has also cribbed features from Foursquare, Twitter and Vine.
    Erin Griffith, WIRED, 18 May 2018
  • Now, the quarterback he was traded for has put his California crib up for sale.
    Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2022
  • The finished product ought to crib styling cues from its forebear without recycling its looks.
    Gregory Fink, Car and Driver, 23 Feb. 2022
  • The video isn’t always cribbed from TV commercials or product websites.
    Jack Marshall, WSJ, 31 July 2017
  • Libraries are inviting students to crib off their signals.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2020
  • The designers cribbed the deep green hue from the original laminate used on the countertops pre tear-down.
    Liz Stinson, Curbed, 3 Aug. 2018
  • When not in use, the Cord's headlights folded into the front fenders, a design cribbed from the retractable landing lights of Stinson airplanes.
    Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 4 June 2023
  • The show’s first story arc could almost have been cribbed directly from the original series.
    Noel Murray, The Verge, 11 May 2018
  • The movie lays out its founding mythology, cribbed from Greek tradition.
    Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 5 June 2017
  • Maybe a money-minded promoter will crib from the gladiator days: Sign up now to watch the world champ fight a frothing lion on pay-per-view!
    Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • From the dark humor to the game design, The Outer Worlds is cribbing shamelessly from that post-apocalyptic classic, but setting the whole thing in space.
    Matthew Gault, Time, 26 Aug. 2019
  • In fact, seems have been cribbed from Les Miserable, which is a book about early 19th century France, not America.
    Nr Staff, National Review, 19 July 2019
  • One good way to gauge a track's possible inclusion is to peek at Mario Kart Tour's available tracks, which also crib heavily from the series' past.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 18 Mar. 2022
  • So was meeting his future wife and going on a first date to an Italian restaurant with questions in English cribbed for him by teammates on pieces of paper.
    Geoff Baker, The Seattle Times, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Line’s Mini App platform is another new product that cribs from Google’s notes while possibly making a lot of sense for Japan.
    Sam Byford, The Verge, 27 June 2019
  • To crib from Cyril Connolly, inside every overstuffed novel is a thin novel trying to get out.
    Sven Birkerts, New Republic, 20 Sep. 2017
  • But not for the audience that cheered during one preview show, as Springsteen presented his bill of sale in the show's opening moments — cribbed from the foreword of Born to Run, but no less evocative.
    Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2017
  • My answer to him feels as if it were cribbed from a forward-leaning column by Neil Morgan, the landmark city columnist and Tribune editor.
    Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2018
  • In Mellon’s case, those notes are cribbed from 20th-century composer Florence Price.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 July 2023

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