Example Sentences

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A busy and successful comedian, who free-lances for features, has a contract for eight educational shorts a year, Vince Barnett is less famed in Hollywood as an actor than as a "ribber."

From Time Magazine Archive

An inveterate ribber, she likes practical jokes: when her good friend Clark Gable gave her a BB gun, she practiced potshots at him.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Is it de win’ makes de ribber come up?” asked Mose, in a moment.

From The River Motor Boat Boys on the Mississippi On the Trail to the Gulf by Gordon, Harry

Talkin' 'bout fishin', I 'members when us would be plowin' down by de ribber, when hit come dinner-time an' whilst de mules eatin', us go down to de ribber an' fish.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

He was a roustabout on de ribber, an’ him an’ yer paw fell out, an’ one night when you was a baby he follow yer paw up here, an’ me an’ him had hit out.”

From Mr. Opp by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan