fib

Example Sentences

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He didn’t know diddly about ships or sailing, so he had to tell a big fib to get a job as a cabin boy.

From Literature

Stunned by her blatant fibbing, I backed off.

From MarketWatch

By the way, they also confess to occasionally fibbing about “overqualificiations” to spare job applicants’ egos.

From The Wall Street Journal

And a few moments later a voice next to us describes another case: "Six-year-old girl, she was hit by an electric bike, she has a closed tib/fib fracture."

From BBC

"Perhaps the starkest," Dr Rogers said, were her attempts to explain the cancer fib.

From BBC