Sentence examples for writing crib from inspiring English sources

Sarah Palin spoke at the tea party convention last weekend, and in the process revealed a little trick she uses for public speaking: Writing crib notes on her hand.

The relevant passage is in the Phaedrus, where Socrates castigates the younger man for his dependence on a written "crib sheet" in order to relate to him the contents of a recent discourse by Lysias.

This coming from an airhead who literally wrote crib notes to herself on her hand.

He wrote, "Cribbing from countless adrenaline-fueled concept films, from 'Speed' to any Jason Statham movie you like, 'Getaway' … tries to ride its thin concept, hoping the fumes of constant engine revving are intoxicating".

2. Write speech, cribbing freely.

And did whoever wrote the thesis crib large chunks of it?

Charlie Stross — who is, sad to say, my favorite living science-fiction author now that Iain Banks has died — has been writing a series of "crib sheets" on his blog: explanations of how his various novels came to be written.

"Then, almost overnight, Florence's face changed -- hardened along with her muscles that now bulged as if she had been born with a barbell in her crib," Connolly wrote.

Later in a Q&A session at the convention she was seen reading crib notes written on her palm.

One night, I stayed up all night on quaaludes and wrote a story, cribbed from Bruno Schulz, about a guy who lives in a house that is actually his grandmother.

We know from the Scandinavians, who we're generally so keen to emulate but apparently not on this, that you don't need to learn to read, write and count in the crib to become fantastically literate and numerate when it really matters.