How to Use fib in a Sentence

fib

1 of 2 noun

• Is she telling fibs again?
• I have to admit that I told a fib when I said I enjoyed the movie.
• Six months into the study, 20.4 percent of patients were found to have A-fib.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• In a cruel twist of fate, her fib leads her parents to send her away to China.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2020
• None of it would have really kicked off without a small fib to mom.
  — Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2022
• Among those diagnosed with A-fib, the risk is roughly three times that high, Kowey said.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• To preserve the element of surprise, Juanita resorts to fib and says the doll is a gift for a cousin.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• That part was a fib: The computers were programmed to crash regardless of which keys were hit.
  — Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 13 June 2019
• When the value of the tax roll rises, council members often keep the tax rate the same and claim that taxes didn’t go up. That’s a fib.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 June 2018
• Why would Apple essentially cover for a Trump fib, if that’s in fact what this is?
  — Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 26 July 2017
• People tell lies to make a person feel better, but even the smallest fib can hurt if the recipient acts on the false feedback.
  — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2017
• The show, which starts at 7 p.m. Aug. 28, will feature comedians from The Comedy Arena, who will try to tell if guests are telling a fib or truth.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2020
• Kahan also gets caught in a little fib when asked for a fact about himself that might surprise people.
  — Rebecca Schiller, Billboard, 4 June 2018
• Neidle concluded that Zahawi had told a fib to the media and, by extension, to the U.K. public paying his salary.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Presented on Zoom, the show will feature comedians from the Comedy Arena who will try to tell whether guests are telling a fib or the truth.
  — Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2020
• Over the months, the minor fib has spiraled into Mrs. Doubtfire levels of deception.
  — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2021
• The causes of a-fib are not completely understood, but one widespread view is that too much caffeine might trigger it.
  — Steven Salzberg, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• One key question will be how reliably and accurately the new algorithm being used for the study can catch instances of A-fib.
  — Mario Aguilar, STAT, 1 Sep. 2022
• As the Boston Globe and other news organizations have reported, the tweet is a lobster fib.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 4 July 2020
• The feature also allows users to see how other health and lifestyle data, like sleep, weight, and exercise might be impacting their A-fib.
  — Casey Ross, STAT, 8 June 2022
• The fib in question was delivered during Vanity Fair's lie detector test series (see the video below).
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 13 May 2022
• As long as the risk of getting caught dispensing misinformation does not outweigh the reward of using a fib to get a huge threat out of the way and bind an important player closer to you and your cause, then let 'er rip!
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 5 May 2022
• There’s pleasure in a good fib (spoiler alert: Santa), as well as political advantage.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
• Alcohol consumption and exercise also affect heart rate and can mask or mimic a-fib.
  — Deborah Gage, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2018
• The event reportedly sent President Trump reeling, furious at Spicer not so much for his fib but for Spicer’s appearance during the briefing.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 24 Jan. 2017
• The authors also monitored the patients for strokes going forward — for a median of 3.6 years after their diagnosis with a-fib.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 19 Feb. 2018
• Witnesses said Banks and Harris forced their way in, but Kucaba noted that there was no sign the door was tampered with, and that the teens had incentive to fib since they weren’t allowed to have certain visitors when their mother wasn’t present.
  — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
• The fib hid the fact that Truman had just unknowingly competed in a national Let’s Play Music competition for young composers.
  — Katherine Jones, idahostatesman, 9 Mar. 2018
• After the study, anticoagulants were prescribed for 72 patients who were found to have undiagnosed A-fib.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• None of these devices can detect the electrical indicators of a heart attack, which has much greater morbidity and mortality than A-fib.
  — WSJ, 10 Oct. 2022

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fib

2 of 2 verb

• Heather’s advice is to fib and not give your kid’s exact birth date.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
• But when slinky lingerie is found, Morgan freezes and fibs.
  — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 8 Apr. 2017
• Arizona wouldn’t have been fibbing on his height, right?
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2018
• This isn't the first time Iran fibbed about building superweapons.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2017
• Who isn’t going to fib a little and overstate their exercise habits?
  — Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2021
• So fibbing about your past compensation in hopes of securing a raise may not work out so well.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• Surprisingly, 82% of charity and volunteer workers have lied to try and land a job, while 75% in the leisure, sport, and tourism fields fib on their CVs.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 12 Oct. 2021
• Sure, a few may fib more than others, but at some point everyone deceives someone.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2022
• This would not be the first time Iran was caught fibbing to increase its defense capabilities.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2017
• Alexa McDonald of Columbus, Ohio, discovered that her parents fib a bit.
  — Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
• As far as the food, Pacifico fibbed, advertising crab on the menu/menu board but serving imitation crab.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 7 June 2018
• Survey results will be skewed if the types who do not answer are different from those who do, or if certain types of people are more loth to answer some questions, or more likely to fib.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• The number of women who write book reviews for mainstream publications and who voted for Donald Trump is — unless someone’s been fibbing at Write Club — zero.
  — Caitlin Flanagan, The Cut, 14 May 2017
• The hider, however, had something the seeker lacked: an algorithm in its programming that allowed it, under certain circumstances, to fib.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2010
• His co-worker, Luis Valdes, was also fired for fibbing about the incident; his firing, however, was upheld by an arbitrator — the only one of nine cases in three years won by the department.
  — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 10 June 2017
• For-profit hospitals have been found to fib more to Medicare than nonprofits do — tweaking their diagnoses to get higher reimbursements.
  — Eduardo Porter, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2017
• But Shachar does sympathize with those tempted to fib about a health problem or use an old address to qualify for a vaccine — especially when different areas have different rules.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
• Brain imaging studies show that lying takes greater mental effort than telling the truth, and children’s ability to fib increases hand in hand with their overall cognitive development.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2013
• When deployed more widely to sniff out passengers, the dogs may also deter would-be travelers inclined to fib about their coronavirus exposure or infection status.
  — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2021
• Testing is scarcer in poor countries; and autocratic governments (more common in the developing world) are likelier than democracies to fib about figures.
  — The Economist, 5 June 2020
• The most common example of the crime involves fibbing about a company's financial information for the sake of evading or minimizing tax payments, or in an effort to hoodwink potential investors, Galluzo said.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2023
• Heather’s advice is to fib and not give your kid’s exact birth date.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
• But when slinky lingerie is found, Morgan freezes and fibs.
  — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 8 Apr. 2017
• Arizona wouldn’t have been fibbing on his height, right?
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2018
• This isn't the first time Iran fibbed about building superweapons.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2017
• Who isn’t going to fib a little and overstate their exercise habits?
  — Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2021
• So fibbing about your past compensation in hopes of securing a raise may not work out so well.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• Surprisingly, 82% of charity and volunteer workers have lied to try and land a job, while 75% in the leisure, sport, and tourism fields fib on their CVs.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 12 Oct. 2021
• Sure, a few may fib more than others, but at some point everyone deceives someone.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2022
• This would not be the first time Iran was caught fibbing to increase its defense capabilities.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024