How do you use the word "crib" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "crib": Leave the baby in the crib. The baby is in his crib, sucking on his pacifier.

Crib Meaning

/kɹɪb/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

nounA bed for a child older than a baby.

Sentence Examples

Leave the baby in the crib.

The baby is in his crib, sucking on his pacifier.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

pony trot

Antonyms:

None

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CEFR Practice Quiz

The baby slept peacefully in her ____ all through the night without any disturbance.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English crib, cribbe, from Old English crib, cryb, cribb, crybb (“couch, bed; manger, stall”), from Proto-West Germanic *kribbjā, from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ (“crib, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *grebʰ-, *gerbʰ- (“bunch, bundle, tuft, clump”), from *ger- (“to turn, twist”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kräbbe, Krääb, Krääf (“crib”), West Frisian krêbe (“crib”), Dutch krib (“crib, manger”), German Krippe (“rack, crib”), Danish krybbe (“crib”), Icelandic krubba (“crib”). Doublet of crèche. The sense of ‘stealing, taking notes, plagiarize’ seems to have developed out of the verb. The criminal sense may derive from the 'basket' sense, circa the mid 18th century, in that a poacher could conceal poachings in such a basket (see the 1772 Samuel Foote quotation). The cheating sense probably derives from the criminal sense.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"In two minutes I was kneeling by the child’s crib, and Sandy was dispatching servants here, there, and everywhere, all over the palace. I took in the situation almost at a glance -- membranous croup!" — 1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court:

"a day or two afterwards I learned that Miss Temple, on returning to her own room at dawn, had found me laid in the little crib; my face against Helen Burns’s shoulder, my arms round her neck. I was asleep, and Helen was -- dead." — 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “[HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20140811201712/HTTP://ETEXT.VIRGINIA.EDU/ETCBIN/OT2WWW-PUBENG?SPECFILE=%2FTEXTS%2FENGLISH%2FMODSLAENG%2FPUBLICSEARCH%2FMODENGPUB.O2W CHAPTER ?]”, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:

"I began to think of my horse. He, however, like an old campaigner, had taken good care of himself. I found him paying assiduous attention to the crib of Indian corn, and dexterously drawing forth and munching the ears that protruded between the bars." — 1835, Washington Irving, chapter 35, in A Tour on the Prairies:

"A kitchen, a meat-house, a dairy, a crib with two stalls in the rear, one for the horse the other for the cow, were the out-buildings" — 1871, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Dukesborough Tales:

"Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox." — 1611, “Proverbs 14:4”, in The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:

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