lip

Example Sentences

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You can see it through so many different versions in these different photographs — her hair changes, how she dresses changes, the red lip.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

The frontmen of Milli Vanilli were famously revealed to be lip synching in the 1990s.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

He told the three-judge panel that the court must not pay "lip service" to human rights, adding that the right to criticise state organs is protected by China's constitution.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Mr. Epstein pays only lip service to the idea that constraints aren’t always beneficial.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

I bite my lip at the insult, unsure whether—beyond me—her crack was supposed to be about culture, quantum, or the nearly forty tribal Nations within what’s currently called Oklahoma.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith