Examples of fib in a Sentence
Noun
I have to admit that I told a fib when I said I enjoyed the movie.
Is she telling fibs again?
Verb (1)
fibbed and said that he had remembered to water her plants while she was away
Verb (2)
the two drunken pub crawlers proceeded to fib each other senseless
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Amy Nicholson, Twin Cities, 15 May 2025
The irregular heartbeat — ventricular fibrillation (v-fib) — prevents blood from pumping to the brain causing a person to faint or sudden cardiac death.
—Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Daysia Tolentino, EW.com, 20 July 2025
Mexican, Chinese, Cuban restaurants, a Jersey Mike’s, a Sawgrass Mills eatery and a golf club restaurant that seems to have fibbed about why it was closed comprise the return of the Sick and Shut Down List.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025
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Noun
But Ulman has strung together a net of interesting observations: glances, insults, mistaken presumptions and gaslighting fibs.
—Amy Nicholson, Twin Cities, 15 May 2025
The irregular heartbeat — ventricular fibrillation (v-fib) — prevents blood from pumping to the brain causing a person to faint or sudden cardiac death.
—Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Verb
The This Is Us actress stopped by the Not Gonna Lie podcast and told host Kylie Kelce that her singer hubby recently fibbed about watching the film to a friend.
—Daysia Tolentino, EW.com, 20 July 2025
Mexican, Chinese, Cuban restaurants, a Jersey Mike’s, a Sawgrass Mills eatery and a golf club restaurant that seems to have fibbed about why it was closed comprise the return of the Sick and Shut Down List.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025
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“Fib.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fib. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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