lip

Example Sentences

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If the music world is decamping from London again this week, then it needs to "give back to the community", she adds, and not just pay it "lip service".

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

The inner height of the walls is 7.2 metres and the athletes soar high above the lip of the half-pipe.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

Conspicuous lip color can, after all, signify a million things — from class status to sardonic camp.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

With blonde horizontal stripes dyed into her black hair and a piercing in her upper lip, the 20-year-old Liu is putting an alternative spin on figure skating.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

I bit my lip so hard I could taste the blood.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff