How to Use fib in a Sentence

fib

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  • Is she telling fibs again?
  • I have to admit that I told a fib when I said I enjoyed the movie.
  • Six months into the study, 20.4 percent of patients were found to have A-fib.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • In a cruel twist of fate, her fib leads her parents to send her away to China.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2020
  • None of it would have really kicked off without a small fib to mom.
    — Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Among those diagnosed with A-fib, the risk is roughly three times that high, Kowey said.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • That part was a fib: The computers were programmed to crash regardless of which keys were hit.
    — Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 13 June 2019
  • When the value of the tax roll rises, council members often keep the tax rate the same and claim that taxes didn’t go up. That’s a fib.
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 June 2018
  • Why would Apple essentially cover for a Trump fib, if that’s in fact what this is?
    — Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 26 July 2017
  • 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 show, which starts at 7 p.m. Aug. 28, will feature comedians from The Comedy Arena, who will try to tell if guests are telling a fib or truth.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Neidle concluded that Zahawi had told a fib to the media and, by extension, to the U.K. public paying his salary.
    — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Over the months, the minor fib has spiraled into Mrs. Doubtfire levels of deception.
    — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • As the Boston Globe and other news organizations have reported, the tweet is a lobster fib.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 4 July 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • As long as the risk of getting caught dispensing misinformation does not outweigh the reward of using a fib to get a huge threat out of the way and bind an important player closer to you and your cause, then let 'er rip!
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 5 May 2022
  • There’s pleasure in a good fib (spoiler alert: Santa), as well as political advantage.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Alcohol consumption and exercise also affect heart rate and can mask or mimic a-fib.
    — Deborah Gage, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2018
  • The event reportedly sent President Trump reeling, furious at Spicer not so much for his fib but for Spicer’s appearance during the briefing.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 24 Jan. 2017
  • The authors also monitored the patients for strokes going forward — for a median of 3.6 years after their diagnosis with a-fib.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Witnesses said Banks and Harris forced their way in, but Kucaba noted that there was no sign the door was tampered with, and that the teens had incentive to fib since they weren’t allowed to have certain visitors when their mother wasn’t present.
    — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
  • The fib hid the fact that Truman had just unknowingly competed in a national Let’s Play Music competition for young composers.
    — Katherine Jones, idahostatesman, 9 Mar. 2018
  • After the study, anticoagulants were prescribed for 72 patients who were found to have undiagnosed A-fib.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • 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

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