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UK
/ɹˈɪbən/
]
[ US /ˈɹɪbən/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɪbən/ ]
NOUN
- a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter
- notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming
- an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
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any long object resembling a thin line
from the air the road was a grey thread
a thread of smoke climbed upward
the lighted ribbon of traffic
a mere ribbon of land
How To Use ribbon In A Sentence
- Meanwhile the red ribbon was slowly unfurling like a red cloud and then a crimson sea.
- Relaxing, in amusement at her unwonted altruism of motive, she had drawn her moleskin coat more closely around her, and settled back to wait the other woman's pleasure in returning to the bright warmth that the pale-orange ribbon of light, wavering upon the swaying platform, harbingered. Undesirables
- Make a Mobius strip out of a ribbon of mild steel and magnetise it.
- It came with a large red ribbon tied around its nose. Times, Sunday Times
- Her hat was tricked out with a yellow ribbon.
- Peel the aubergines with a potato peeler to obtain ribbons of skin uniform in length and width. A Passion for Food
- She usually wore a dress of dark gray stuff, with immense pockets, a black silk neckerchief folded over her shoulders, a white tamboured muslin cap, with a black ribbon passed two or three times round the crown. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
- The Longitude Act established a blue ribbon panel of judges that became known as the Board of Longitude.
- It came with a large red ribbon tied around its nose. Times, Sunday Times
- He was always what they call ‘a bleeder,’ a puncher who leads with his face and usually gets cut to ribbons by the time the first couple of rounds are over.