RIBS in a Sentence

Learn RIBS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

54 example sentences for RIBS, such as:

1. She jabbed her finger in his ribs.
2. The middle ribs were the most arched.
3. Her stays were cutting her ribs in two.
4. No ribs of man or boat can withstand it.
5. The soldier jabbed a rifle into his ribs.

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 Meanings and Examples of RIBS
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rib
 n.  one of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax
ribbed
 a.  having pattern of raised bands;
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  Her stays were cutting her ribs in two.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  His hip bones stood out like an old cow's, his ribs showed like a washboard and his back was a mass of sores.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  His eyes sparkled wickedly and he dug his elbow into Hugh's ribs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  She went down the stairs backwards, feeling a sickening dart of pain in her ribs as she landed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
5  "So are you," said Bonnie generously and, hammering a heel into Mr. Butler's ribs, she galloped down the yard toward the arbor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
6  The skeleton iron windmill on the farm a few blocks away, at the north end of Main Street, was like the ribs of a dead cow.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  His ribs were grim clear lines, his skin was clammy, his pulse was feeble but terrifyingly rapid.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  To grope down into the bottom of the sea after them; to have one's hands among the unspeakable foundations, ribs, and very pelvis of the world; this is a fearful thing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
9  No ribs of man or boat can withstand it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
10  Attached to this back-bone, for something less than a third of its length, was the mighty circular basket of ribs which once enclosed his vitals.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
11  From that part, the remaining ribs diminished, till the tenth and last only spanned five feet and some inches.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
12  The middle ribs were the most arched.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
13  The largest of the Tranque ribs, one of the middle ones, occupied that part of the fish which, in life, is greatest in depth.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
14  While he was in the act of doing so, I watched my chance, and gave him a heavy kick close under the ribs.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  On the one side a great crag towered up a thousand feet or more, black, stern, and menacing, with long basaltic columns upon its rugged surface like the ribs of some petrified monster.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
Example Sentence:
1  She was taken to hospital with a broken arm and ribs.
2  She jabbed him in the ribs with her finger.
3  She jabbed her finger in his ribs.
4  They stuck a gun in his ribs and made him fork over all his money.
5  She was taken to the hospital with broken ribs and a punctured lung.
6  The soldier jabbed a rifle into his ribs.
7  He suffered three cracked ribs in the accident.
8  Each dinner, she likes to cook a thin slice of meat, usually veal or lamb, cut from the leg or ribs.
9  This scarf is really simple and easy - but the wavy ribs cause the edges of the scarf to curve in and out, making it look more complicated than it is.
10  You can reduce the amount of heat in a chili pepper by removing the ribs and seeds.
11  In breathing the chest muscles expand the rib cage and allow air to be sucked into the lungs.
12  You've fractured a rib, maybe more than one.
13  One trainee, who broke a rib, is keeping it a secret, fearing he'll be discharged.