Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use bib in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun, verb

Bib means an item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating. Example: “The baby dribbled onto its bib.”

Examples of bib by meaning

nounA patch of colour around an animal's upper breast and throat.

  • In summer the whole throat and breast are black, but in winter plumage the throat is white bounded by a horseshoe-shaped black bib.1950, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and their Allies
  • This here cat has got a nice thick black coat of fur with a nice white bib and white feet.2011, Arthur Peacock, Gettysburg the Cat, page 22

verbTo dress (somebody) in a bib.

  • Wise women use them, but new fathers seldom seem to understand that one minute bibbing baby saves who knows how long swabbing, finding clean clothes, changing, and coddling later — not to mention laundry time.1990, Don Aslett, Don Aslett's Stain-buster's Bible: The Complete Guide to Spot Removal
  • Mel got Daniel into his chair and bibbed him up.2011, Dawn Atkins, The Baby Connection, page 101

More sentences with bib

  • The baby dribbled onto its bib.From the entry dribble
  • Anna Sparks shrugged into her air jacket and slipped her bib over the top of it.2014, Lauren St John, The One Dollar Horse. From the entry air jacket
  • Black sheer blouses with squared bib fronts, and expensive-looking black and dark grey woollen knits.2012, Melanie Calvert, Freycinet, page 105. From the entry knit
  • Its ruff is black sprinkled with white hairs and its bib is white.2005, Eskandar Firouz, “Mammals of Iran”, in The Complete Fauna of Iran, London; New York, N.Y.: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 88. From the entry ruff
  • It coordinates with one of those “feeted” pajamas with a shirred bib front.1970 September 12, Jan Irwin Sadd, “The Pajama Scene”, in Chicago Tribune, page 21. From the entry feeted
  • Look at the way he has your bib destroyed that I was after washing in the morning!1906, Lady Gregory, “A Miracle Play”, in The Shanachie, volume 1. From the entry after
  • The top has elbow-length sleeves and a bibbed front.2017 April 19, “Mexico’s Folk Dances: Costumes and Features”, in Vallarta Lifestyles. From the entry Mexican pink
  • Then, Radames noticed that some of the people wore bibs.2016, Ira Nayman, “The Digital Gods Have More Important Things to Worry About”, in It’s Just the Chronosphere Unfolding as it Should…. From the entry eww
  • But to be sure baby Boardman was as good as gold, a perfect little dote in his new fancy bib.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry dote
  • But to be sure baby was as good as gold, a perfect little dote in his new fancy bib.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry to be sure
  • The most striking accessory of all, however, was a diamond stomacher, a kind of lapidary bib that covered the princess's chest and stomach.2006, Judith Pascoe, The Hummingbird Cabinet, Cornell University Press,, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry stomacher
  • Bib front pants with snap crotch and flannel lined jacket trimmed with piping and bows make an outfit from Jewel Tops Matching hat.1959, Infants' & Children's Review, volume 66, Haire Publishing Company, page 46. From the entry snap crotch
  • Our little leaky faucet had to wear a drool bib at all times, and went through them at the rate of one per hour, even more when he was teething.2012, Angela Wynne, The Baby Cheapskate Guide to Bargains, page 206. From the entry drooler
  • Finally, the Carolingian byrnie might have had a mail ventail, or bib, hanging from the neck that, when raised and attached to the helmet, provided neck and lower face protection.2006, William W. Kibler, Leslie Zarker Morgan, Approaches to Teaching the Song of Roland, Modern Language Association of America, →ISBN. From the entry ventail

Meaning of bib

  1. noun An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.
  2. noun Similar items of clothing such as the Chinese dudou and Vietnamese yem.
  3. noun A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by competitors.

Full definition of bib

Questions about bib in a sentence

How do you use bib in a sentence?
Bib is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The baby dribbled onto its bib.”
What is a short sentence with bib?
“The baby dribbled onto its bib.”
What does bib mean?
Bib means an item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bib (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use bib in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/bib. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.