Gibbons

[ gib-uhnz ]

noun

1. Grin·ling [grin, -ling], 1648–1720, English woodcarver and sculptor, born in the Netherlands.
2. Orlando, 1583–1625, English composer.

Gibbons

/ ˈɡɪbənz /

noun

1. GibbonsGrinling16481721MEnglishARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptorARTS AND CRAFTS: woodcarver Grinling. 1648–1721, English sculptor and woodcarver, noted for his delicate carvings of fruit, flowers, birds, etc
2. GibbonsOrlando15831625MEnglishMUSIC: organistMUSIC: composer Orlando. 1583–1625, English organist and composer, esp of anthems, motets, and madrigals

Example Sentences

For Gibbons, the election official in Lynchburg, the tense election day atmosphere feels familiar.

From Time

Last year, Lynchburg didn’t have any poll watchers during its early voting period, according to Gibbons.

From Time

Tangle web spiders, a group that includes North American widow spiders and redbacks, are the most successful snake slayers, Nyffeler and Gibbons found.

From Science News

That’s where, Gibbons adds, a reliable forecasting methodology makes the difference.

From Search Engine Land

In some encounters, he and Gibbons learned, venom can defeat snakes in minutes.

From Science News For Students

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons This novel won the literary Prix Femina Étranger.

From The Daily Beast

(Gibbons says “we are unaware of any such activity by the FBI”).

From The Daily Beast

Surely Gibbons and Krolicki have already gamed this scenario.

From The Daily Beast

The odds in Las Vegas should be on Gibbons appointing Gibbons.

From The Daily Beast

Although his money has dried up and his poll numbers are in a tailspin, Gibbons insists he is running for reelection next year.

From The Daily Beast

The same peculiarity exists in the larger anthropoid apes and in some of the gibbons, but is not found in the lower mammals.

From Project Gutenberg

She sat down at the spinet and played a little madrigal by Orlando Gibbons that was associated with her earliest childhood.

From Project Gutenberg

Nearly all Grinling Gibbons' delicate carving is in Lime wood.

From Project Gutenberg

My dear Mrs. Gibbons, surely you read the papers and you see what awful things the Germans are doing in Belgium.

From Project Gutenberg

The last stronghold carried was Fort Gregg, at which the men of Gibbons corps had one of the most desperate struggles of the war.

From Project Gutenberg