How to Use lib in a Sentence

lib

noun

• That was one of these sort of ad-lib moments that happened at the farm.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2017
• And if that's the case for lib, it's got to be the case for /bin, too, oddly enough.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 22 May 2020
• Watch them ad lib their way through a set of Halloween songs below.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Feb. 2015
• Each guest was invited to hurl a brick through the windows — a dandy way of trolling the libs.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 23 Oct. 2025
• John would often ad-lib his own melodies to songs playing while his five children were still asleep.
  — Safid Deen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 June 2018
• The team is excited to meet you, make small talk, and ad-lib a bunch of questions to fill time.
  — Alex Baia, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2022
• The rest of the ad is a standard-issue mad lib of ominous right-wing buzzwords.
  — Jay Willis, GQ, 7 Mar. 2018
• The ad-lib elicited some chuckles from the Monday night crowd.
  — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
• The only thing that is missing is evidence of seething libs.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
• Buttigieg’s speech, on the other hand, resembled a kind of mad-lib speech in which none of the blanks had been filled.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 7 Feb. 2020
• Open up a wedding invitation these days, and the dress code can feel like party mad libs.
  — Aemilia Madden, Vogue, 10 June 2026
• At any moment, Trump may be serious or just owning the libs.
  — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 22 Aug. 2025
• Your impulsive sign would rather ad-lib than plan everything to the letter.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 8 Nov. 2022
• Smoothbrain libs and savages can KMA.
  — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
• My tentative plans are to gerrymander all those crazy libs right out of the section.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2017
• For in a crazy, incoherent form the message of women’s lib has seeped through to prostitutes.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Sep. 2017
• In other words, conservatives are more this - and libs are more this - is this making sense just to clear up any confusion?
  — Fox News, 21 July 2018
• Opposing quarterbacks have been forced to ad-lib against the Eagles all season.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
• These musicians do not plan to simply ad-lib a few choruses over the chord changes of popular standards.
  — Phillip Lutz, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2016
• Modern robots can use machine learning to ad-lib on instruments including the flute and drums.
  — Shi En Kim, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2020
• When Fox fired Tucker Carlson the libs applauded.
  — Joshua Sammons, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
• The libs must've been FUMING watching this.
  — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
• Clark shies away from making any showy marks with her rhetoric, which hews toward a mad lib of inoffensive political platitudes.
  — Kara Voght, The New Republic, 2 Jan. 2023
• The women’s lib movement, of course, took cues from the civil rights movement in many ways, and as Nelson points out, this was especially true with health care.
  — Aisha Harris, Slate Magazine, 5 Apr. 2017
• Long before anyone was burning bras or even knew the term women’s lib, these engineers were balancing career, family, and children.
  — National Geographic, 8 May 2016
• Apt timing considering that the designer, author, and philanthropist has long been a symbol of women’s lib—avec glamour.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2021
• The best teams show a consistent ability to score on broken plays with quarterbacks who can skillfully ad-lib and teammates who can take advantage of those moments.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
• There’s also a lot of dull hopping and racing and mumbling — whereas Beatle ad-libs were witty before, now everyone just sounds stoned out of his mind.
  — Jordan Hoffman, New York Times, 9 July 2018
• On Friday afternoon Jerry Jones read a prepared statement with some ad-lib about where the team stands with Witten.
  — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Big Sean is his signature ad-lib personified, slinging out some of his best lyrical work in a minute, *Big Sean Voice* boi.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2020