How to Use jibe in a Sentence

jibe

verb
Definition of jibenext
Synonyms for jibenext
  • The Fed’s view doesn’t jibe with the recent hopes and dreams of some investors.
    — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
  • But having boots on the ground in far-flung parts of the world does not jibe with the Trump doctrine.
    — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The tendency to pull the ball for power in baseball doesn't jibe with a golfer who pulls the ball.
    — Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • But the signs didn’t jibe with city code, which had allowed right turns on red from the northbound curb lane.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Old pagan themes remained, but the pagan names were changed to jibe with the Christian Bible.
    — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 25 June 2018
  • This did not jibe with new coach Jeremy Pruitt’s vision for the position, and thus the deal fell apart.
    — Alex Hickey, ajc, 21 Dec. 2017
  • But, Kohler said, that line of thinking doesn’t jibe with some of the newer video game collectors.
    — Washington Post, 13 July 2021
  • There's an attempt to end on a hopeful note that doesn't quite jibe with the jaundiced outlook of the film that came before.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The goal, Jenkins told me, was to come up with plausible scenarios that still jibe with the holy book.
    — Chris Deville, The Atlantic, 27 June 2021
  • That's good for up to 53 miles of range, a number that jibes well with my experience riding the bike.
    — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 15 June 2023
  • The images also jibe nicely with the photos of long-haired hipster WPKN staffers in the 1960s.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2022
  • Still, the figures seem to jibe with news that the HomePod failed to meet Apple’s expectations.
    — Nick Statt, The Verge, 17 May 2018
  • Fortunately for us, the AP's guidelines jibe with our own.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 28 May 2020
  • Yet the notion that Regan could be the perpetrator did seem to jibe with certain facts.
    — Ruth Padawer, New York Times, 19 June 2018
  • This doesn’t jibe with what JPMorgan Chase says happened.
    — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Could be, depending on what that 88 and 92 mean (rating-system point values can differ), and whether or not the nose and mouth behind the scores jibe with yours.
    — Michael Austin, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • An outsider might face a learning curve that doesn’t jibe with the team’s championship ambitions.
    — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The numbers jibe with polling during the Trump years when the president’s supporters felt the media was trying to crush his agenda.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Everything is flat and framed in medium shots, missing the dark cityscape aesthetic of the first film, which jibed with the ethos of modern mythology.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Pau Gasol is first, proof that defensive efficiency doesn’t always jibe with the eye test.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Which does not exactly jibe with the Yastrzemski quote above.
    — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Bowden’s belief in forgiveness and second chances did not always jibe with critics or the NCAA.
    — Marc Freeman, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2021
  • But that desire for normalcy doesn’t jibe with the unpredictability of a virus.
    — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 7 Jan. 2022
  • That includes leaving himself open for eye-rolls when his sunny outlook doesn’t jibe with his dismal record.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 27 Oct. 2020
  • This doesn’t jibe with Cynthia Kirsch’s memory of how things unfolded.
    — cincinnati.com, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Analysts at Bob Ross Inc. synced up footage from the first episode with the painting in front of them, checking to see if his brushstrokes and knife work on the small screen jibed with the painting in front of them, Kowalski said.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • However, that account does not jibe with the confession Peck reportedly made to the police at the time of his arrest.
    — Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com, 27 Jan. 2022
  • There are also moments of tragedy that jibe awkwardly with the show’s zany comic interludes.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 June 2019
  • The celebration is universal, which does not always jibe with the petty meanness of the Shakespeare.
    — New York Times, 9 Aug. 2021
  • That defense also fails to jibe with Abaaoud's goal of killing a maximum number of people during attacks.
    — Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020

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