tipoffs

Example Sentences

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Games now routinely take close to 2½ hours; there are 10 three-minute TV timeouts per game; there are 20-minute halftimes and middle-of-the-night tipoffs.

From Washington Post • Oct. 16, 2022

Police are investigating why tipoffs from the public in the run-up to the party were reportedly ignored.

From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2020

The usual tipoffs about what a wave was going to do next—boils over shallow spots, the indications thirty or forty yards away of what’s in store for you—were all absent.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2018

Dubious evaluations have also now shed their grammatical hilarity, although some tipoffs continue to amuse aficionados of the genre.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2018

There were tipoffs as to what he’d be doing with his life: the designs he sketched in his prayer books in Yeshiva, the outfits he made for puppet shows in his garage.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2013