How to Use babe in a Sentence

babe

noun
  • The queen of the blonde beach babes!
    Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The queen of the blonde beach babes!
    Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • Most of these songs go out to the babes.
    Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
  • Out of the mouth of babes, indeed.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
  • White children and white babes in arms were there.
    Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But that’s an easy question, babe.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The young babe bangs his plate and throws his dinner to the dog.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 14 Sep. 2020
  • We were called aqua-babes and aqua-belles and aqua-naughties.
    Susan Goldberg, National Geographic, 20 Oct. 2019
  • But strength, as the saying goes, comes from the mouth of babes.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Yeah, babe, that was probably very scary for the duck.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Your beach babe just got a whole lot cuter in this lightweight hoodie.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Feb. 2023
  • That is molly water, babes, and your night is about to change!
    Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
  • My babes wore these for the first crossfit open workout to cheer me on.
    Caralynn Lippo, Redbook, 1 Mar. 2017
  • There were so many little kids — from babes in arms to teens joining the fun.
    Jane Napier Neely, La Cañada Valley Sun, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Let’s keep going and going babe.
    Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 23 June 2026
  • Thank you so much, babe, for making the big 4 0 a whole lot less painful.
    Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE.com, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Ready to escape the cold weather and have your own beach babe moment?
    Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 27 Dec. 2022
  • His head had been turned by a gorgeous babe flouncing down the sidewalk.
    Sally Quinn, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
  • New parents know that the costs of having a brand-new babe quickly add up.
    Annie Blackman, Glamour, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Sorry, babe, but that dookie is lying on your doorstep, too.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • And from the mouths of babes, Lisa Fletcher is proved correct.
    Kelley Kramer, Fox News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Good luck with that Saturn Return, babes!
    Caroline Framke, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025
  • It’s supposed to be, ‘Oh, big righteous babe falling for a man.
    Jonathan Van Meter, SPIN, 8 Apr. 2023
  • If other artists planned on having the biggest crowd of the weekend, well … good luck, babe!
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The girlies are either all over you and won’t take no for an answer (‘Do a line of coke with us babe!
    Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 24 June 2024
  • Most of the crowd sang along at the top of our lungs even though many clubgoers would’ve been wee babes when the ballad came out.
    Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
  • Doing the worm on the carpet and a cartwheel on the floating dock is not enough to impress, babes.
    Emma Soren, Vulture, 22 July 2024
  • Against the mural backdrop, a statue of Joseph kneels beside the babe in a manger.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2020
  • And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
    The Editors, National Review, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Eat the cold spaghetti or leftover enchiladas, babe.
    Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 13 Jan. 2026

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