How to Use jive in a Sentence

jive

1 of 3 noun

• I'm tired of listening to your jive.
• She grew up talking street jive.
• Waits left, the brief Camelot of our street corner jive ended.
  — New York Times, 30 July 2021
• Their jive is bright and fun, but Kaitlyn seems to lose steam throughout.
  — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2020
• On Monday, her jive earned her three 9's from the judges, for a total score of 27.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 22 Oct. 2019
• The four sets of dancers performed two dances each, earning votes from viewers and judges' scores, which were weighed equally. The first round saw Ally and Sasha zooming out to a perfect 30 for 30 from the judges with a spot-on jive.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2019
• On the dance floor inside, Shally and Andy were dancing a lively and fast-paced jive.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• Edmond’s current job as a realtor jives well with her dream of opening a nonprofit group home.
  — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
• That slimmed down jives with reports from other Oregon businesses.
  — oregonlive, 9 May 2020
• Everyone else just speaks military jive, half-swearing and half-jargon.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 6 Mar. 2021
• Literal bits of the culture creep in, with references to hand jive and vogueing, for example.
  — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
• Former football star Terrell Owens displayed great charm on a jive honoring spy movies.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• This jives with the ballerina’s belief that her art form is about mindset as much as physical exertion.
  — Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2025
• The first round saw Ally and Sasha zooming out to a perfect 30 for 30 from the judges with a spot-on jive.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2021
• Simply put, the internal clock no longer jives with its surrounding environment.
  — Cathy Habas, SELF, 17 Jan. 2025
• In an era of TikTok pop jive, Cedric Burnside is a dirty-fingernails bluesman.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 29 Sep. 2021
• During the World Series, entire baseball stadiums acted out the video’s shark-bite hand jive.
  — Ben Sisario, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2019
• The second effort foretold disaster, with a training video that showed real tension as Nelly struggled with a jive.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2020
• That the truck driver was somewhat to blame jives with the immediate descriptions of the crash, which happened on the shuttle’s first day of operation.
  — Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 11 July 2019
• This beachside village mixes European hamlet vibe with old-school surf-shop jive, backdropped by a kaleidoscope of restaurants, bars and shops.
  — Allen Pierleoni, The Mercury News, 16 June 2019
• Her opening jive was excellent and Derek Hough complimented her rotation.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 20 Sep. 2022
• The country singer was bummed about her performance and scores last week but vowed to do better this week, especially with one of her favorite family films as the inspiration for her jive.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2022
• Haslet, 35, was a professional ballroom dancer who received a prosthetic blade to do the quickstep and the jive, and only then decided to take up running.
  — The Associated Press, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2016
• Throughout the competition, Maher occasionally struggled, and at one point even broke down crying after a rough attempt at a jive.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2024
• But nothing could have spoken louder than his small, spontaneous gesture, his awe, far more powerful than today's HD histrionics and hand jive.
  — Martha Teichner, CBS News, 14 July 2019
• The Talk host uses her off time to teach online fitness classes, but no amount of extra-curricular cardio seemed to help with her underwhelming jive that featured one too many lifts.
  — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2021
• Karagach and Baena, who is the son of Arnold Schwarzenegger, earned 23 out of 40 total points for their jive during last week's premiere.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2022
• Len Goodman called the jive the dance of the season so far, and Carrie Ann Inaba said the routine was one of her favorites in the show’s history.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• Zooming through busy and bustling roads, Robbins told the story of how the hand jive was invented in a crowded coffee bar and how John Lennon once guarded a public toilet.
  — Nadia Owusu, Travel + Leisure, 9 Aug. 2021
• Paired with pro dancer Sasha Farber, Lee showed moments of raw athletic awesomeness — bouncing up from a split with shocking alacrity and giving precise kicks and flicks in her jive.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2021

jive

2 of 3 verb

• I know he's just jiving me.
• Everyone was jiving to the beat.
• Don't take him seriously—he's just jiving.
• And attendees on lawn chairs will jive to the sounds of steel bands.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
• America was ready to come inside and learn how to jive an’ wail.
  — Kenneth Partridge, Billboard, 29 May 2018
• So, the end product comes out as something with a feel in it as well as something to jive to.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 1 June 2022
• Gray hair—fake or natural—must jive with your coloring to work.
  — Rory Satran, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
• All of that would jive with a guy who is trying to lift the ball more to create extra carry.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 Sep. 2020
• The claims that razor bumps and irritation are reduced don't jive.
  — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 25 Sep. 2022
• Virgo Virgo is another earth sign Aquarius may not jive with.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 21 Jan. 2024
• Barring a full and complete meltdown in those 11 games, the idea that the Leafs should just give up on the season still doesn’t jive for me.
  — Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
• There’s no games, no shucking and jiving, everybody is really bringing their A-game.
  — Arushi Jacob, Variety, 15 May 2026
• Classic hits from the era played throughout the evening, giving fathers and daughter a chance to twist and hand jive their way across the dance floor, a news release stated.
  — News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026
• And that doesn’t necessarily jive with the perception of the team, say, in the regular season.
  — Jonas Siegel, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
• The series seems to jive with head coach Dan Hurley’s desire to play tough non-conference games against the top programs in the sport.
  — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2025
• Eovaldi has also jived with pitching coach Mike Maddux, who like him, is a pitching strategy junkie.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
• This jives with what Steward said in his original Instagram announcement.
  — Thom Craver, CBS News, 20 July 2019
• The whole race course will be illuminated with on-course DJs to keep you jiving, and then at the finish line, there will be an explosive main stage.
  — Erica Boniface, The Know, 4 Mar. 2017
• The high school musical romance Grease hand-jived its way into theaters during the summer of 1978.
  — Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
• There are some questions, however, about how the new fair will jive with the existing, recently launched Art Mumbai fair, which takes place at the same time.
  — The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 19 Sep. 2024
• Mayfield, Garrett and Ward are the only picks to reach the quality threshold, which probably jives with how most fans viewed their rookie years.
  — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 21 Apr. 2020
• Smith, 63, employs some old-school tactics that don't jive as well with today's athletes and would be a major culture shock to how the Colts currently run.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Jan. 2022
• Ready or not, the Dancing With the Stars competitors are jamming, jiving, and foxtrotting in full throttle.
  — Calie Schepp, EW.com, 9 Oct. 2024
• New and old systems often don't jive together, so bridging that gap is essential for a successful last-mile implementation.
  — Daniel Sokolovsky, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• All were built after World War II to cheaply house the masses in a way that jived with communist ideology.
  — Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 6 Aug. 2019
• However, the astrologer points to typical characteristics of certain signs that may not jive with Libras.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
• That mandate didn't jive with a Florida state law banning businesses from requiring proof of vaccination.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 23 June 2021
• Memory foam mattresses might be a hot commodity in the mattress game right now, but the newer technology doesn’t jive with everybody.
  — Kevin Luna, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2021
• The egg shape of this Christofle flatware set will jive with your holiday theme, but will remain a timeless and luxe focal point for future entertaining no matter the season.
  — Town & Country, 26 Feb. 2023
• Instead, find something that does jive with you—whether that’s yoga class, power lifting, or pickleball—and allow your resulting delight to radiate.
  — Outside, 13 Feb. 2026

jive

3 of 3 adjective

• Born to hand jive, forced to grow up.
  — Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
• Someone was telling me to stick my butt out and jive talk and walk around and stick your lip out and bug your eyes.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• With that in mind, a wholesale treatment of the record is more chamber recital than jive pageant.
  — oregonlive, 28 Jan. 2020
• There’s a moment of bliss when the lighting dims to club level and all eight dancers jive as one.
  — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
• Some are chasing romance, others just the music and the jive.
  — Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
• However, the quality of the video doesn't quite jive with the rest of the episode.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 21 June 2020
• So, being able to waltz, tango, quickstep and jive in equal measure?
  — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
• This, somehow, does not jive with the optics of what players and coaches are seeing.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 29 June 2018
• But the results do jive with past trials of antioxidants in cancer patients.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
• Irwin was paired with Gomez for a jive, and their chemistry was immediately clear to the judges…and their fans.
  — Glamour, 26 Nov. 2025
• Chuckling at female servants accidentally shot in the face just doesn’t jive.
  — Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2019
• But bringing it in from elsewhere didn’t jive with the premise of a truly self-sufficient environment.
  — Jill Barth, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• For their first performances, the celebrity and pro duos' dances ran the gamut from the tango, to the cha-cha, salsa, foxtrot, and jive.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2024
• From the glimpses of practice available to reporters this spring, those stripe removals jive with which players are making plays and creeping up the depth chart.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
• In the 1950s, jive furthered its reach through the embrace of Black radio disc jockeys.
  — Heather Augustyn, Spin, 9 Aug. 2023
• The duo then welcomed Carrie Ann into rehearsals to help with their redemption jive.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 21 Nov. 2022
• Hawkeye staring into camera cross-eyed wouldn’t exactly jive with the general tone.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 24 July 2019
• The council seems not above a little cannibalism to make the conflicting interests jive.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
• Families were able to juke and jive to high-quality bands from all over the region in the grass, then head a couple of blocks to await the boom boom over the barricades.
  — al, 29 Jan. 2023
• Here's why agile transformation and a perfect transformation plan just don't jive.
  — Andrea Fryrear, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• These American DJs spread jive not only over America but across the ocean.
  — Heather Augustyn, Spin, 9 Aug. 2023
• In many of these passages, facts, gyration, jive and comedy are cut across one another yet in equilibrium.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
• However, that endeavor didn’t jive with his driving privileges.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 27 May 2020
• The Peloton instructor also earned two bonus points in the jive relay round, bringing his final total for the night to 36.
  — Gabrielle Duncan, PEOPLE.com, 1 Nov. 2021
• The jive talker, the role of slang-slinging slickster, has been picked up by Slick, Junkyard Dog and the Godfather.
  — Jeremy Harriot, The Root, 1 Sep. 2017
• Green’s reputation for chance taking didn’t always jive with statistics, however.
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2020
• Danielle Fishel and dancing pro Pasha Pashkov danced a jive dedicated to Fishel's co-star, Bill Daniels.
  — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 15 Oct. 2025
• My muscle-building aspirations just didn't jive with the traditional expectations of Asian women that they were used to.
  — Jessica Tran, SELF, 29 Mar. 2018
• Fans draped in the country’s tricolour flag two-step, dance and jive — led tirelessly by the body-paint-sporting ‘Seven Letters’ — to the constant drumming.
  — Max Mathews, New York Times, 9 June 2026
• Their voices, surprisingly, jive very well together, despite their stylistic differences.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2022