How to Use lib in a Sentence

lib

noun

• And if that's the case for lib, it's got to be the case for /bin, too, oddly enough.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 22 May 2020
• Manson was a product of the 60s: women’s lib, the pill.
  — Laura Bradley, HWD, 10 Oct. 2017
• The file /data/lib/libips.so was also present but had a file size of zero.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2023
• That was one of these sort of ad-lib moments that happened at the farm.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2017
• Was there ad-lib takes in Neal's famous rental car tirade?
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2022
• Of course, there is a more concrete side to lib-owning, too.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 30 Jan. 2022
• The team is excited to meet you, make small talk, and ad-lib a bunch of questions to fill time.
  — Alex Baia, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2022
• The ad-lib elicited some chuckles from the Monday night crowd.
  — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
• Buttigieg’s speech, on the other hand, resembled a kind of mad-lib speech in which none of the blanks had been filled.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 7 Feb. 2020
• Watch them ad lib their way through a set of Halloween songs below.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Feb. 2015
• The rest of the ad is a standard-issue mad lib of ominous right-wing buzzwords.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 7 Mar. 2018
• Nothing truly makes as little sense in rap as the ad-lib.
  — Natalie Maher, Billboard, 3 Jan. 2018
• John would often ad-lib his own melodies to songs playing while his five children were still asleep.
  — Safid Deen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 June 2018
• The VPN kept dropping out, forcing him to ad-lib some of his presentation.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 3 June 2016
• Your impulsive sign would rather ad-lib than plan everything to the letter.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 8 Nov. 2022
• My tentative plans are to gerrymander all those crazy libs right out of the section.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2017
• For in a crazy, incoherent form the message of women’s lib has seeped through to prostitutes.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Sep. 2017
• In other words, conservatives are more this - and libs are more this - is this making sense just to clear up any confusion?
  — Fox News, 21 July 2018
• A breathy whoosh every now and then, and frequent conversations and ad libs were further proof that Gaga was singing every freakin' note.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• Opposing quarterbacks have been forced to ad-lib against the Eagles all season.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
• The women’s lib movement, of course, took cues from the civil rights movement in many ways, and as Nelson points out, this was especially true with health care.
  — Aisha Harris, Slate Magazine, 5 Apr. 2017
• On Friday afternoon Jerry Jones read a prepared statement with some ad-lib about where the team stands with Witten.
  — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• The women's lib bashing Bobby Riggs was an showbiz act.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2017
• Big Sean is his signature ad-lib personified, slinging out some of his best lyrical work in a minute, *Big Sean Voice* boi.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2020
• These musicians do not plan to simply ad-lib a few choruses over the chord changes of popular standards.
  — Phillip Lutz, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2016
• Modern robots can use machine learning to ad-lib on instruments including the flute and drums.
  — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2020
• With French and Swae Lee keeping their vocals untouched, Carey glides in and connects on every ad-lib with surgical precision.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 29 Aug. 2017
• There’s also a lot of dull hopping and racing and mumbling — whereas Beatle ad-libs were witty before, now everyone just sounds stoned out of his mind.
  — Jordan Hoffman, New York Times, 9 July 2018
• But the screws already get tightened from all sides — women’s rights crusaders and women’s lib lobbyists take turns putting man back on his heels until he is pinned behind the eight ball dodging the shrapnel from the glass ceiling.
  — Jody Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• Clark shies away from making any showy marks with her rhetoric, which hews toward a mad lib of inoffensive political platitudes.
  — Kara Voght, The New Republic, 2 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024