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How To Use Dibs In A Sentence

  • She can't have first dibs; he's a person not a pet.
  • Now Silas Coombe was requesting first dibs on Horatio's books. ALL ABOUT LOVE
  • But it wasn't about rescuing an animal, it was just the way to continue the friendship, and I'm glad that Rex Petersen said I could have first dibs at TJ.
  • Smiling to herself, she gloated silently in her triumph of being the first one in the kitchen; therefore having first dibs on all of the food.
  • Shortly before she and Tony married in 2002, the home's then-owners - good friends of the couple - announced they were moving and wanted Liz and Tony to have first dibs.
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  • Let the creative juices flow when you pick out your props; I call dibs on the unicorn horn.
  • They have only ever asked for the right of first refusal - that they have first dibs at renewal if they have been good tenants.
  • When I came into this House in 1990 - Labour had just been in Government for 6 years and had done nothing - a major company in Porirua went into receivership, and the Inland Revenue Department came in and had first dibs.
  • And then, how Constance would have smiled over Beatrice's ideals -- her "fluffy" evenings -- in a kind of regretful, wondering way; almost as she had smiled when she first called me "Dick," in asking what had become of our staid English reserve; as she watched the noisy crowd in Fleet Street, singing its silly doggerel about England's security and England's "dibs. The Message
  • To be honest, I'm stunned that Ned didn't call dibs first.
  • Because I figured that you met him first so you have first dibs, but since you don't like him in that way you'll have no problem with me getting him to go out with me, will you?
  • Well, Artsfans, no longer will you have to schlepp down to Churchill Square or crook your dialing finger to lay dibs on tickets to that exquisite cultural event.
  • Better bring yur sleepin bags, I gots dibs awn da spare room, altho I will share wif myne cheezefreends, kaus dey bii da bestes! What? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Apparently all the Y chromosomes have indentical genotypes AND as Alpha Male he got dibs. Hillary To Raise Half A Million Dollars For Obama At Private Manhattan Dinner
  • I have dibs on that last slice of pizza
  • I believe that probably Silverstein's proposal - and he has first dibs, as it were, because he leased the buildings - of four buildings making up the same amount of space is probably what will happen.
  • On the off chance that they did, I'd like to remind them that I've got dibs on Attenborough and Harris.
  • My dibs are on him being some lame ABC type.
  • Apparently all the Y chromosomes in town have indentical genotypes AND as Alpha Male he got dibs. GOP Senator On Bush: Homina, Homina, Homina...
  • We fought over who was going to New York to marry Mark Ruffalo, but Tash said she had first dibs.
  • We'll split the baloney sandwich, but I got dibs on the chips!
  • I thought I should have first dibs since I live with him, but Shelly decided that was an unfair advantage, and it tumbled down hill from there.
  • It is very pretty, and it has my name penciled in the back for first dibs on borrowing it: -) When all else in you turns and runs
  • ‘Well, Joss might let you fly her, but I think Neana has first dibs,’ Keegan said with a smile.
  • I have just started listening to you over the last few months as your show is new to my area, but I have really enjoyed every episode so far. (the last one I heard you were talking about "hosey" as in "dibs", which I see is in the dictionary). MetaFilter
  • Dibs and dabs of news continued to filter down to the house in Carter Lane, but all of London knew of it when Will was attainted and sentenced to die. Secrets of the Tudor Court
  • The trouble for equity investors is that the debtholders have first dibs over the initial £2.9b of any valuation, and possibly even more than that as Marconi will need to retain some of its cash for working capital purposes.
  • She was engaged in the homely occupation of darning socks, and what with her size, her loose untidy dress – serge of the colour of boiled spinach, with dibs and dabs of embroidery here and there – and a green scarf that belonged to the dress, and a rust-coloured one she had put on in a fit of absentmindedness, and her mending-basket, and a scatteration of socks, she pretty well filled the old-fashioned sofa. The Key
  • Your mother had first dibs, and she wanted the bottom.
  • The drama centres on twin sisters, Dibs Hamilton and Girlie Delaney, and the ugly squabble over who gets to inherit Allandale, the family farm.
  • *Dibs een wif sord adn grenaids adn saevz 3LittlKitties frum teh ebil KOUSes tehy wurs tahn ROUSes* Yes yessss - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • In the spring, these British birds can beat their Spanish cousins back to Germany, getting dibs on the best nesting sites.
  • The wait list service would let people sign up to register a domain that was already registered, so that they would have first dibs in the event that it ever becomes unregistered.

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