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How to use babe in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Babe means a baby or infant; a very young human or animal. Example: “These events came to pass when he was but a babe.”

Examples of babe by meaning

nounA baby or infant; a very young human or animal.

  • These events came to pass when he was but a babe.

nounAn attractive person, especially a young woman.

  • She's a real babe!

nounA darling (a term of endearment).

  • Hey, babe, how's about you and me getting together?
  • But, Babe, you don't have to meet 'em if you don't want to.1916 March 11, Charles E. Van Loan, “His Folks”, in Saturday Evening Post

More sentences with babe

  • He always had a girl on his arm – he's a bit of a babe magnet.From the entry magnet
  • He was still a babe in arms when his father died overseas.From the entry babe in arms
  • The three bored, interchangeable booth babes winked and flirted vapidly; he had already forgotten their names.From the entry vapidly
  • There were enough blazing babes in the place to give a monk a hard-on on sight.2023, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction, page 16. From the entry blazing
  • The cutest babe but she's so on job, like, truest definition of a boss woman.2022 November 9, @itsmbeloved, Twitter, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2023. From the entry on job
  • “Soz, babe, I should probably mingle and talk to more people.2020 August 10, Michael Cusack, “Maddison's Birthday Party” (7:43 from the start), in YOLO: Crystal Fantasy, season 1, episode 1, spoken…. From the entry soz
  • To the extent that she can pull it off, her gender is babe.2016, Nell Zink, Nicotine. From the entry woman-born-woman
  • Bubba said the looksome babe magnets in the front and the old married men in the back.2015, MadDog Woods, The Many Concerns of MadDog. From the entry looksome
  • No amount of soil in her capris could ever weigh down such a bodalicious babe.2013, Ariel Kiley, Simone Kornfeld, Smitten: The Way of the Brilliant Flirt, page 155. From the entry bodalicious
  • I'll be your babe and you will be my hubby wubby.2012, Wisam Patros, Torn, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry ride or die
  • And if she's not in the mood, neither are you, babe.2010 July 13, Charlene Lichtenstein, HerScopes: A Guide to Astrology for Lesbians, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry pillow queen
  • "Look, he continued, I know it's a leeetle bit Dodgy Brothers, babes.2010, Ben Elton, Meltdown, Random House, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry dodgy brothers
  • But not every company needed a hottie PR rep or "booth babe" to catch our eye.2003, Maximum PC. From the entry booth babe
  • He said, 'Come on, babe,' and led her to the starproof shadow of a flowering daphne.1988, Julian May, The Adversary. From the entry starproof
  • I am sure he counts every bawling barearse babe as a prospective patient.1985, Robert E. Knoll, Intimate Fragments: An Irreverent Chronicle of Early Halifax, Nimbus Publishing Limited, published 1985, →ISBN…. From the entry barearse
  • I ran into the Devil, babe, he loaned me 20 bills.1970, “Friend of the Devil”, performed by Grateful Dead. From the entry bill
  • But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone. From the entry pawn
  • And it ain't no use in a-turning on yer light babe: the light I never knowed.1962, Bob Dylan, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, Verse II. From the entry knowed
  • There was the babe, her little face blotched with sores, peering from the hood of her kooletah.1960, Donalda McKillop Copeland, Remember, Nurse, page 47. From the entry kooletah
  • He drove over last Saturday with this English babe that’s in this new picture he’s writing.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 26, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC. From the entry affected
  • Such a babe is always a little joke to the countryside.1946, Conrad Richter, chapter 19, in The Fields, New York: Knopf, published 1964, page 273. From the entry afterclap
  • He didn’t plan for this division of his identity—devoted dad to his family and dungeon master with his babe.2017, Esther Perel, “The Mother of All Betrayals?: Affairs Among Other Marital Misdemeanors”, in The State of Affairs: Rethinking…. From the entry dungeon master
  • So Hansen has released a Be on the Lookout For and this babe can't wait to drop the dime.2012, Don Winslow, California Fire and Life, page 297. From the entry be on the lookout
  • Babe, can I hop on your landline?2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1). From the entry lick
  • (CAPTION) Out of the mouths of babes, love is explained.2010 Feb. 12, "First Graders' Valentines" (news video), Time (retrieved 8 Sept 2013). From the entry out of the mouths of babes
  • Taylor is aware of the perception that he is the innocent, exploitable babe in the woods of the Geelong defence.2008, Jake Niall, "‘Weakest link’ no more, Harry shows he's tailor-made," The Age (Australia), 8 Sep. (retrieved 23 May 2009). From the entry babe in the woods
  • Babe bought them at a secondhanded store.2004, Elizabeth Kytle, Willie Mae, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry secondhanded
  • Hey, babe, you wanna see my monsterdick?2004, Konkret, page 43. From the entry monsterdick
  • Polly couldn't abide Pat Walsh's bossy, jolly hockey-sticks manner and her curious predilection for calling absolutely everyone "babe."2003, Caroline Upcher, Falling for Mr. Wrong. From the entry jolly-hockey-sticks
  • Daryl Hannah says I'm a totally helatious babe, Sam!1995, Steve Purcell, The Collected Sam & Max: Surfin' the Highway. From the entry helatious
  • Babes in Toyland - Holiday family show based on Victor Herbert's classic, following the adventures of a rockband through Toyland.1979 December 31, New York Magazine, page 22. From the entry rockband
  • If these native babes went around with their podexes exposed they wouldn't have any because the mosquitoes would eat them off.1953, Jack Woodford, Writer's Cramp, page 35. From the entry podex
  • Dill-water—all the suff’ring babes yowling for it.1908, H. G. Wells, chapter 3, in Tono-Bungay, Toronto: Macmillan, page 76. From the entry dillwater
  • Oh, yeah, babe, he's a GRB.2023 November 29, “Taylor Swift Has A 'Golden Retriever Boyfriend' And Now Everyone Else Wants One”, in HuffPost, archived from the…. From the entry GRB
  • Some posh totty, who was more than a little bit of a babe, just walks up and makes Eddie pull her, against his will almost.2006, Richard Taylor, Eddie Shore 4 Jo, Lulu Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 29. From the entry totty
  • In my opinion, the absolute worst way to generate artificial interest is the tactic that is commonly known as the booth babe.2006, Eric Sink, Eric Sink on the Business of Software. From the entry booth babe

Meaning of babe

  1. noun A baby or infant; a very young human or animal.
  2. noun An attractive person, especially a young woman.
  3. noun A darling (a term of endearment).

Full definition of babe

Questions about babe in a sentence

How do you use babe in a sentence?
Babe is used as a noun. For example: “These events came to pass when he was but a babe.”
What is a short sentence with babe?
“She's a real babe!”
What does babe mean?
Babe means a baby or infant; a very young human or animal.

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