piping

Example Sentences

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He wore a dark blue jersey with red-and-white piping.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

It doesn’t require architectural ambition or a steady hand with a piping bag.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2026

The pommel-horse shape is accented with pencil-thin metallic piping and soft, suffused light pools in the hollows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

Your daughter made you a lukewarm cup of tea, and you are rewarding her with a piping hot mug of the finest Colombian coffee.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 6, 2026

“Estha Mon!” he would call out, in his high, piping voice, frayed and fibrous now, like sugarcane stripped of its bark.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy