| 1. | The fair girl, with a laugh of ribald coquetry, turned to answer him. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 2. | You heard their ribald laugh as they clutched the moving bag that the Count threw to them. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | Wak'd by the lark, hath rous'd the ribald crows. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | Harlot a low, ribald fellow the word was used of both sexes it comes from the Anglo-Saxon verb to hire. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 5. | A ribald face, sullen as a dean's, Buck Mulligan came forward, then blithe in motley, towards the greeting of their smiles. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |