How to Use crib in a Sentence

crib

1 of 2 noun
  • Choose from sizes crib to king.
    — Tory Johnson, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • He's found them in his son's crib.
    — Quil Lawrence, NPR, 28 May 2026
  • Even brought some of her lovers back to the crib.
    — Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Sina sleeps beside us in her crib.
    — Ahmed Naji, The Dial, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Infants were snatched from their cribs and found dead in ovens.
    — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Place the device across the room, not next to the crib or bed.
    — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Throw out drop-side cribs and expired car seats, which can't be sold.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Her 10-month-old son was in his crib nearby.
    — Emily Broyles, Charlotte Observer, 19 Feb. 2026
  • One game at a time, go protect the crib and come back to take one at their home.
    — Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • And while the price is steep, remember that this is a bassinet and crib in one.
    — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Like practicing the moves, wrestling in the cribs, all that type of stuff.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Babies were slaughtered in their cribs.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Throw my hair in a ponytail before getting my son from his crib.
    — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 6 June 2021
  • Of the changeling child found ensconced in the family crib.
    — Adam Verner september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Every room has a portable crib and high chair.
    — Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 17 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • This means putting your baby on their back in a crib or bassinet without any blankets or toys.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 1 Oct. 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
  • The bare-faced mom grinned while snapping a selfie with her baby in a crib behind her.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 1 Jan. 2026
  • 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 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
  • But Hayden’s crib cam was recording all night — and offered a clue.
    — Lauran Neergaard, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The couple’s 1-year-old child was also found asleep in her crib, unharmed.
    — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Amina blows her mom a kiss and then flops down in her crib, pretending to be asleep.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • All of it was recorded in Budgie’s crib at the time that Zeroh was there.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2023
  • But perhaps just as telling as the bundle of awards was a bedroom stuffed with three baby cribs.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Jayden liked his living room crib better than the toddler bed.
    — Jayme Fraser, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
  • In March, my wife and I put our daughter into her crib for the first time.
    — Kevin T. Dugan, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2021

crib

2 of 2 verb
  • She cribbed a line or two from her favorite poet.
  • Kanye works on a conceptual level in a way that's hard to crib from.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2018
  • 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 a line from Matrix, the work and the hours and the Google spreadsheets go on.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The finished product ought to crib styling cues from its forebear without recycling its looks.
    — Gregory Fink, Car and Driver, 23 Feb. 2022
  • To crib an infamous line from Charlie Strong, the cake is baked for Choice.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 18 July 2022
  • Aalto has been cribbing from his little brother, Hugo, and has 20 e-books.
    — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The movie lays out its founding mythology, cribbed from Greek tradition.
    — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 5 June 2017
  • Conversely, Blackout doesn't crib much from Fortnite's take on the genre.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 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 show’s first story arc could almost have been cribbed directly from the original series.
    — Noel Murray, The Verge, 11 May 2018
  • The designers cribbed the deep green hue from the original laminate used on the countertops pre tear-down.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 3 Aug. 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
  • The video isn’t always cribbed from TV commercials or product websites.
    — Jack Marshall, WSJ, 31 July 2017
  • Facebook has also cribbed features from Foursquare, Twitter and Vine.
    — Erin Griffith, WIRED, 18 May 2018
  • 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
  • Multiple follow-up treatments continue to surface, now including a look cribbed from one of the most iconic boots of all.
    — Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The memo methodically laid out how health sciences staff whittled down the death toll likely attributable to crib bumpers.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Nov. 2019
  • There is even, inexplicably, an entire chorus cribbed from a blink-182 song.
    — Olivia Horn, Pitchfork, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Stief and Zames have effectively—to crib some tech lingo—narrowed the discovery funnel.
    — Sean Santiago, ELLE Decor, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Aristotle was cribbing a bit from Democritus, actually, but in those days footnotes were heavy and hard to carve.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • To crib from Cyril Connolly, inside every overstuffed novel is a thin novel trying to get out.
    — Sven Birkerts, New Republic, 20 Sep. 2017
  • While hotels are cribbing from the villa business, the villa business has learned a thing or two from hotels—in particular, branding.
    — Lauren Lipton, Town & Country, 13 Mar. 2015
  • Noah is constantly making sermons or toasts cribbed from Talmud for Netflix Subscribers.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • But there's something a bit anticlimactic about ending it in that basement, as if the characters never had lives outside the archetypes the show made for them, cribbed from a role-playing game.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • In Mellon’s case, those notes are cribbed from 20th-century composer Florence Price.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • Rather than develop the attacks on their own, Poison Carp members appear to have cribbed from proof-of-concept exploits posted by white hat researchers.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2019
  • 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

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