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
• But perhaps just as telling as the bundle of awards was a bedroom stuffed with three baby cribs.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 13 Sep. 2023
• Throw my hair in a ponytail before getting my son from his crib.
  — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 6 June 2021

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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
• Stief and Zames have effectively—to crib some tech lingo—narrowed the discovery funnel.
  — Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 18 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024