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Examples

  • Kendry takes the first pitch he sees into LF for a ribby single.

    Yankees-Angels: Game 1 | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Mostly Context-free Darling du Jour: Re: a skinned section of a dog's tail left lying on the ground, and misidentified as a dead snake I thought they were more, I don’t know, ribby in the middle.”

    Cherie Priest » Blog Archive » June 7 Progress 2007

  • Mostly Context-free Darling du Jour: Re: a skinned section of a dog's tail left lying on the ground, and misidentified as a dead snake I thought they were more, I don’t know, ribby in the middle.”

    Cherie Priest » 2007 » June 2007

  • Everything else seemed fine, toes wiggling in their rubber thongs, heart beating in its ribby cage, but her neck ached.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

  • I used to knit when I was a kid but I only done squares of "normal knit" - I'd never be able to do those ribby bits you've managed.

    Stupid Midwest vuboq 2006

  • Everything else seemed fine, toes wiggling in their rubber thongs, heart beating in its ribby cage, but her neck ached.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

  • Also it`s "speaking" to me of a lacy stitch, not ribby.

    A week of minor irritations. Spinningfishwife 2006

  • Also it`s "speaking" to me of a lacy stitch, not ribby.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Spinningfishwife 2006

  • Everything else seemed fine, toes wiggling in their rubber thongs, heart beating in its ribby cage, but her neck ached.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

  • He was a tallish, slightly ravaged young man, thinner, more ribby than the sleek soldiers who toyed with the kids.

    Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

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  • ...bony, ribby regions of the earth...

    - Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 57

    July 25, 2008