How to Use jive in a Sentence

jive

1 of 2 noun
Definition of jivenext
Synonyms for jivenext
  • I'm tired of listening to your jive.
  • She grew up talking street jive.
  • The main feature of the dance is a clumsy bit of hand jive.
    — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Dance, jive, have the time of your life by watching below.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 11 July 2018
  • 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 latest comes direct from the world of hand jives, baby.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Waits left, the brief Camelot of our street corner jive ended.
    — New York Times, 30 July 2021
  • 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
  • Their jive is bright and fun, but Kaitlyn seems to lose steam throughout.
    — Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • On the dance floor inside, Shally and Andy were dancing a lively and fast-paced jive.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • His hand jive, soul arches, and toreador-like flourishes play to the camera in a way that breaks the spell of the itinerant surfer in far-flung solitude.
    — Jamie Brisick, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • In an era of TikTok pop jive, Cedric Burnside is a dirty-fingernails bluesman.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Lee made her Dancing with the Stars debut this week, performing a jive with partner Sasha Farber.
    — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Literal bits of the culture creep in, with references to hand jive and vogueing, for example.
    — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023
  • During the World Series, entire baseball stadiums acted out the video’s shark-bite hand jive.
    — Ben Sisario, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Former football star Terrell Owens displayed great charm on a jive honoring spy movies.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • The 21-year-old model, along with her dance pro partner Val Chmerkovskiy, tied for the highest score on Monday night's show, but the stellar performance — a high-energy jive — wasn't enough to save the duo, and they were sent home.
    — Laura Hanrahan, Woman's Day, 25 Oct. 2019
  • That slimmed down jives with reports from other Oregon businesses.
    — oregonlive, 9 May 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Everyone else just speaks military jive, half-swearing and half-jargon.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 6 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But despite having made people dance and jive for decades, up until this year, the group had never been nominated for the coveted music accolade.
    — Char Adams, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2023
  • 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
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jive

2 of 2 verb
  • I know he's just jiving me.
  • Everyone was jiving to the beat.
  • Don't take him seriously—he's just jiving.
  • If things aren’t jiving, this is the month to make a change!
    — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And attendees on lawn chairs will jive to the sounds of steel bands.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • America was ready to come inside and learn how to jive an’ wail.
    — Kenneth Partridge, Billboard, 29 May 2018
  • 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
  • For the gently jiving Mr. Businessman, not the beat, but that’s okay.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2020
  • In a category of its own, in 2016, Laurie Hernandez jived to the theme on Dancing with the Stars.
    — vanityfair.com, 9 Aug. 2017
  • That doesn’t jive with what he’s accomplished against the Los Angeles Rams: a spotless 6-0 record.
    — Jay Paris, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Gray hair—fake or natural—must jive with your coloring to work.
    — Rory Satran, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
  • The claims that razor bumps and irritation are reduced don't jive.
    — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 25 Sep. 2022
  • But coiling 1,000 linear feet of drip tube around the front lawn to drip irrigate your favorite tree might not jive with the local HOA police!
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 7 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Those answers are yet to be discovered, but Maggie's Negan-esque descent doesn't seem to jive with the Commonwealth's code of conduct.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Potential spoiler warning: Consisting of six issues, that volume sees Beta unleash the dead on the group in the aftermath of Alpha's death, which so far jives with the show.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Eovaldi has also jived with pitching coach Mike Maddux, who like him, is a pitching strategy junkie.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • 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
  • A swing band exists to set the crowd jumping and jiving, but while Mr. Blankenbuehler capitalizes on the period’s shoulder shrugs and swiveling hips, big dance numbers are few, short and subdued.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
  • The researchers entered into their research with the intent of trying to generate a version of the third law of thermodynamics that jived cleanly with quantum physics.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • This jives with what Steward said in his original Instagram announcement.
    — Thom Craver, CBS News, 20 July 2019
  • Spears has never seemed to fully jive with the idea of fame: as a girl from McComb, Mississippi, who went on to become one of the globe’s biggest and most provocative pop stars, her dual personalities have long seemed at odds with each other.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 15 May 2019
  • 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
  • There are other parts of the TWA Hotel experience that don’t jive with present-day nostalgia for mid-century hospitality.
    — Daisy Alioto, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 June 2019
  • That mandate didn't jive with a Florida state law banning businesses from requiring proof of vaccination.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 23 June 2021
  • 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

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