How to Use fib in a Sentence

fib

1 of 2 noun

• Is she telling fibs again?
• I have to admit that I told a fib when I said I enjoyed the movie.
• None of it would have really kicked off without a small fib to mom.
  — Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2022
• Her other fibs may be humorous, but the film never mocks her.
  — Fred Topel, Deadline, 15 Nov. 2025
• In a cruel twist of fate, her fib leads her parents to send her away to China.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2020
• Lauren captioned the post, a playful nod to the harmless fib.
  — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
• That is a likely fib, as the long-suffering lady behind the wheel is all too aware.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
• Among those diagnosed with A-fib, the risk is roughly three times that high, Kowey said.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• But there was no way to turn my father dying into a therapeutic fib.
  — Amanda Peet, New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2026
• Kahan also gets caught in a little fib when asked for a fact about himself that might surprise people.
  — Rebecca Schiller, Billboard, 4 June 2018
• To preserve the element of surprise, Juanita resorts to fib and says the doll is a gift for a cousin.
  — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• People tell lies to make a person feel better, but even the smallest fib can hurt if the recipient acts on the false feedback.
  — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2017
• The causes of a-fib are not completely understood, but one widespread view is that too much caffeine might trigger it.
  — Steven Salzberg, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• Collapsing or falling unconscious are among the most common symptoms of an V-fib episode.
  — Terry Collins, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
• Alcohol consumption and exercise also affect heart rate and can mask or mimic a-fib.
  — Deborah Gage, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2018
• These are the silly, inconsequential fibs that affect them and no one else and become an issue only when they get called out by the other ladies.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
• One key question will be how reliably and accurately the new algorithm being used for the study can catch instances of A-fib.
  — Mario Aguilar, STAT, 1 Sep. 2022
• The feature also allows users to see how other health and lifestyle data, like sleep, weight, and exercise might be impacting their A-fib.
  — Casey Ross, STAT, 8 June 2022
• As the Boston Globe and other news organizations have reported, the tweet is a lobster fib.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 4 July 2020
• Jason Isaacs told a little fib before being cast for The White Lotus season 3.
  — Brian Anthony Hernandez, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025
• After actually trying them, the fib became reality, and everyone raved about the snack on camera.
  — Taylor Rock, Fox News, 22 Sep. 2018
• The fib in question was delivered during Vanity Fair's lie detector test series (see the video below).
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 13 May 2022
• Presented on Zoom, the show will feature comedians from the Comedy Arena who will try to tell whether guests are telling a fib or the truth.
  — Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2020
• Technically speaking, my musical reporting was a fib.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 9 Aug. 2025
• Alice’s mother encouraged her interest in art and unwittingly guaranteed the first notable recognition of her talent by telling a fib.
  — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• None of these devices can detect the electrical indicators of a heart attack, which has much greater morbidity and mortality than A-fib.
  — WSJ, 10 Oct. 2022
• Also, the trial included only people who were not currently experiencing episodes of A-fib.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 9 Nov. 2025
• After the study, anticoagulants were prescribed for 72 patients who were found to have undiagnosed A-fib.
  — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• Rather than going hard on law stuff or culture stuff, this episode relies a lot on Matty using her powers of empathy and her facility with fibs to crack the mystery underlying this case.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
• Fishel was eventually able to coax Adler to admit that his fib was merely a child's angry rationalization, born out of hurt, of their beloved parent suddenly receding from their daily life.
  — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Nov. 2025

fib

2 of 2 verb

• Heather’s advice is to fib and not give your kid’s exact birth date.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
• This isn't the first time Iran fibbed about building superweapons.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2017
• Sure, a few may fib more than others, but at some point everyone deceives someone.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2022
• Who isn’t going to fib a little and overstate their exercise habits?
  — Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2021
• So fibbing about your past compensation in hopes of securing a raise may not work out so well.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• This would not be the first time Iran was caught fibbing to increase its defense capabilities.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2017
• In a confessional, Jasmine called out her husband for fibbing.
  — Abigail Adams, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
• Yet, fantasy, fibbing, and fiction are part of the human experience.
  — Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
• As far as the food, Pacifico fibbed, advertising crab on the menu/menu board but serving imitation crab.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 7 June 2018
• Survey results will be skewed if the types who do not answer are different from those who do, or if certain types of people are more loth to answer some questions, or more likely to fib.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• Alexa McDonald of Columbus, Ohio, discovered that her parents fib a bit.
  — Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
• Much like real-life income reporting, the game’s requirement to self-report income before tax created an incentive for people to fib.
  — Iese Business School, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
• For-profit hospitals have been found to fib more to Medicare than nonprofits do — tweaking their diagnoses to get higher reimbursements.
  — Eduardo Porter, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2017
• When deployed more widely to sniff out passengers, the dogs may also deter would-be travelers inclined to fib about their coronavirus exposure or infection status.
  — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2021
• Brain imaging studies show that lying takes greater mental effort than telling the truth, and children’s ability to fib increases hand in hand with their overall cognitive development.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2013
• In today’s challenging market, finding a job can be a long, frustrating process, and some job seekers have resorted to fibbing in order to present themselves as better candidates for a role.
  — Sophie Caldwell, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
• Testing is scarcer in poor countries; and autocratic governments (more common in the developing world) are likelier than democracies to fib about figures.
  — The Economist, 5 June 2020
• In the poll, 60% of respondents confessed to wanting to impress their dentist during office visits, leading 57% of them to fib about their dental hygiene.
  — Khloe Quill, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2025
• Surprisingly, 82% of charity and volunteer workers have lied to try and land a job, while 75% in the leisure, sport, and tourism fields fib on their CVs.
  — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 12 Oct. 2021
• But Shachar does sympathize with those tempted to fib about a health problem or use an old address to qualify for a vaccine — especially when different areas have different rules.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
• His co-worker, Luis Valdes, was also fired for fibbing about the incident; his firing, however, was upheld by an arbitrator — the only one of nine cases in three years won by the department.
  — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 10 June 2017
• There must be full disclosure of all material facts (and obviously no fibbing), and the common way to do that is a private placement memorandum, referred to as a PPM.
  — Schuyler Moore, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
• For the record, Vrabel has fibbed to my face in an interview about his close friend, John Streicher, the Patriots’ vice president of football operations and strategy.
  — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
• The most common example of the crime involves fibbing about a company's financial information for the sake of evading or minimizing tax payments, or in an effort to hoodwink potential investors, Galluzo said.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2023