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How to use jibe in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun, verb

Jibe means a facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt. Example: “He flung subtle jibes at her until she couldn’t bear to work with him any longer.”

Examples of jibe by meaning

nounA facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt.

  • He flung subtle jibes at her until she couldn’t bear to work with him any longer.
  • He had written two novels: one of them violently anti-Catholic, just before his conversion, and five years later another, in which he had attempted to turn all his clever jibes against Catholics into even cleverer innuendoes against Episcopalians.1920 April, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “Amory, Son of Beatrice”, in This Side of Paradise, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC...

verbTo say in a mocking or taunting manner.

  • "Eavesdroppers often hear highly instructive things," jibed a memory.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter VI, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published June 1944, →OCLC, part...

verbTo make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer.

  • "What's the matter with you?" the woman jibed.1953, James Hilton, “Paris III”, in Time and Time Again (An Atlantic Monthly Press Book), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC...

verbTo accord or agree.

  • That explanation doesn’t jibe with the facts.
  • They do not jibe with experience.1926 May 13, Henry H. Glassie (witness), “Statement of Henry H. Glassie, Member of United States Tariff Commission”, in Investigation of...
  • This did not jibe with the objectivist view that metaphor is of only peripheral interest in an account of meaning and truth and that it plays at best a marginal role in understanding.1980, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, chapter 27, in Metaphors We Live By

More sentences with jibe

  • Boy, do his jibes ever tee me off!From the entry tee off
  • Without reinforcement, the other person will remember only the joke or jibe.2000, Richard L. Epstein, The Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking, page 7. From the entry slanter
  • The Marlfox ignored the jibe, listening to the steady ring of axeblades against oakwood.1998, Brian Jacques, “Act Three: The Queen’s Island”, in Marlfox (Redwall), London: Hutchinson Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 296. From the entry oakwood
  • The Avatar spoke gently as she responded to his jibe.2015, Tooty Nolan, Earplug Adventures: An Exaltation of Earplugs, →ISBN. From the entry monk
  • 'Ashvegas' has hit back at its northern rival - trading jibes with Rotorua over the provincial towns' tongue in cheek nicknames.2012 August 30, Sue Newman, “'Ashvegas' hits back at northern rival”, in The New Zealand Herald, archived from the original on 31 Dec 2024. From the entry AshVegas
  • It did not jibe with her doing the Dutch.2006, Les Roberts, The Dutch, page 67. From the entry do the Dutch
  • "New and improved" is a term of opprobrium in White Flower's catalog, a sarcastic jibe at the garden world's racier, hypier outfits.2007, Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education, Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, →ISBN, page 208. From the entry hypey
  • And he tries stout-heartedly to explain away Lorenzo Clark's anti-Semitic jibes and mean tricks by pretending that the black is half-crazed by his terminal malady.1982, Ellen Schiff, From Stereotype to Metaphor: The Jew in Contemporary Drama, →ISBN, page 163. From the entry stout-heartedly
  • Ministers in the Conservative government last week claimed that Labour “vilified” Britain's hard-pressed drivers—a jibe stemming from the backlash against London mayor Sadiq Khan’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez).2023 October 7, Jim Pickard, “It’s not government that creates jobs”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times…. From the entry ULEZ
  • Scarborough gets picked on a lot – mean jibes about it being a land of strip malls, high-rises and doughnut shops filled with lumber-jacketed heavy-metal burnouts.2003 May 13, Samantha Grice, “They’re just teasing: Soap company’s Big Hair Shampoo pokes good clean fun at Scarborough”, in National…. From the entry lumber-jacketed

Meaning of jibe

  1. noun A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt.
  2. verb To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt.
  3. verb To say in a mocking or taunting manner.

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Questions about jibe in a sentence

How do you use jibe in a sentence?
Jibe is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He flung subtle jibes at her until she couldn’t bear to work with him any longer.”
What is a short sentence with jibe?
“They do not jibe with experience.”
What does jibe mean?
Jibe means a facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt.

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