How to Use jibe in a Sentence

jibe

verb
  • Sometimes those wants don’t jibe.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The Fed’s view doesn’t jibe with the recent hopes and dreams of some investors.
    — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
  • But the signs didn’t jibe with city code, which had allowed right turns on red from the northbound curb lane.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The tendency to pull the ball for power in baseball doesn't jibe with a golfer who pulls the ball.
    — Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • The whole thing didn’t quite jibe with his personality.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 3 June 2026
  • But, Kohler said, that line of thinking doesn’t jibe with some of the newer video game collectors.
    — Washington Post, 13 July 2021
  • There's an attempt to end on a hopeful note that doesn't quite jibe with the jaundiced outlook of the film that came before.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • That includes leaving himself open for eye-rolls when his sunny outlook doesn’t jibe with his dismal record.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The goal, Jenkins told me, was to come up with plausible scenarios that still jibe with the holy book.
    — Chris Deville, The Atlantic, 27 June 2021
  • An outsider might face a learning curve that doesn’t jibe with the team’s championship ambitions.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Old pagan themes remained, but the pagan names were changed to jibe with the Christian Bible.
    — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 25 June 2018
  • That's good for up to 53 miles of range, a number that jibes well with my experience riding the bike.
    — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 15 June 2023
  • This did not jibe with new coach Jeremy Pruitt’s vision for the position, and thus the deal fell apart.
    — Alex Hickey, ajc, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Yet the notion that Regan could be the perpetrator did seem to jibe with certain facts.
    — Ruth Padawer, New York Times, 19 June 2018
  • Which does not exactly jibe with the Yastrzemski quote above.
    — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • There are also moments of tragedy that jibe awkwardly with the show’s zany comic interludes.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 June 2019
  • Pau Gasol is first, proof that defensive efficiency doesn’t always jibe with the eye test.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2018
  • But that desire for normalcy doesn’t jibe with the unpredictability of a virus.
    — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 7 Jan. 2022
  • This doesn’t jibe with Cynthia Kirsch’s memory of how things unfolded.
    — cincinnati.com, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Cronin’s system wasn’t jibing with a point guard who thrives in transition and a center unfamiliar with the paint.
    — Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Not so designers’ interest in antiquity, which jibes with a feeling of restraint that is in sync with world events.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 12 July 2023
  • But the ability to know another person's whereabouts at all times doesn't jibe well with a penchant for anxiety.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 31 July 2019
  • That defense also fails to jibe with Abaaoud's goal of killing a maximum number of people during attacks.
    — Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
  • What brides and grooms chose to wear changed, too; a five-figure ball gown doesn’t really jibe with a backyard party or civil ceremony.
    — Emily Farra, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Everything is flat and framed in medium shots, missing the dark cityscape aesthetic of the first film, which jibed with the ethos of modern mythology.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Even the acronym of GPS jibed with her view of how a kid’s own resourcefulness could be used as an inner compass.
    — Shawn Price, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Still, the figures seem to jibe with news that the HomePod failed to meet Apple’s expectations.
    — Nick Statt, The Verge, 17 May 2018
  • Such concerns appear to jibe with rising public concerns about the cost of food, housing and other necessities.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The celebration is universal, which does not always jibe with the petty meanness of the Shakespeare.
    — New York Times, 9 Aug. 2021
  • However, that account does not jibe with the confession Peck reportedly made to the police at the time of his arrest.
    — Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com, 27 Jan. 2022

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