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Example sentences for "hipped"

Lexicographically close words:
hinting; hints; hiora; hip; hipparch; hippo; hippocampus; hippocras; hippogriff; hippopotami
  1. It stood on the upper side of Lockman Street and was built with a hipped or gamble roof.

  2. He was standing in the doorway and his hands were thrust into the pockets of a pair of very wide-hipped knickerbockers.

  3. The main portion, with its hipped roof and mullioned windows, is very old, but the two wings that stretch to the east and west are comparatively modern, and date back little over a century.

  4. Is it equality to scramble with men in the search for knowledge, narrow hipped and flat-chested?

  5. Full-breasted and broad-hipped fit to have children!

  6. His collection of Napoleona is the finest in this country; he is an authority on French history of that period--in fact, he's as nearly hipped on the subject as a man of his powers can be considered hipped on anything.

  7. She moved away with the dignity of an emperor moth, slim and supple-hipped in a tight-wrapped gown.

  8. I confess I have been rather hipped lately.

  9. I tell you I'm just a little hipped from the weather.

  10. The roofs are flat and tiled, and hipped back in an ungainly fashion even at the transepts.

  11. The roof is hipped at both ends and panelled throughout, each panel being filled in with a most ingenious star-like pattern, of the kind which one so commonly sees in Moorish work.

  12. The apses are vaulted with semi-domes, whilst the rest of the church is covered with wooden roofs, and these all lean towards the central square, which has a hipped roof.

  13. In one of these old houses we find an attempt to modify the gambrel into the hipped roof, a type which became highly developed in the latter half of the eighteenth century.

  14. In the earlier examples this roof, instead of being truncated and hipped in all around, with a railing above the crown moulding, was simply hipped in on the lower part, being turned up at the ends, forming small gables.

  15. And to this day he says, 'Whenever I'm hipped or out of sorts, I know what a resource I have in the Glengariff heather.

  16. She was getting so hipped with the place--not so much the place as the odious people--that I suspect she'd have left me to wait for Dunn all alone.

  17. I thought he was hipped on the subject, but now--" "What makes you think all that?

  18. Her shoulders were broad and square and her chest was deep and she was slim-hipped like an athletic boy.

  19. He should have begun work on a driven well, long ago, but he's simply hipped on the powers of this present well.

  20. Defn: The hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height, leaving a truncated gable.

  21. Defn: A hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one.

  22. The hipped main roof is crowned by a "tower" or cupola.

  23. The arrangement of the main roof on the quadrangle side is unique: there is on each side of the central gable a row of hipped roofs.

  24. Otty's hipped to-night," said Collingwood, over the coffee.

  25. The hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height, leaving a truncated gable.

  26. The building exhibited recessed galleries on the north and south sides, and a flattish hipped roof.

  27. This was a squat unpainted wooden building, with hipped roof, concealed from persons passing in the street by a tall cedar stockade, such as those which we see surrounding a Hudson's Bay post or a military wood-yard.

  28. She was a slender narrow-hipped woman and the child was large, but the doctor was feverishly strong.

  29. A red- haired, broad-hipped woman who came out at the front door of one of the houses nodded to her.

  30. Babes hung at the breasts of the women, and they were heavy-hipped with increase of the tribe.

  31. Strong-hipped for children was Kasaan, and straight-legged and quick of foot.

  32. It is a large square structure, two and a half stories in height, with a hipped roof rising above a handsome cornice with prominent modillions and surmounted by a balustraded belvedere.

  33. It is a large, square house two and a half stories high, its hipped roof broken by handsome pedimental dormers with round-topped windows.

  34. Both have hipped roofs so low as to be almost flat.

  35. Above a heavy cornice with prominent modillions springs the hipped roof, pierced on both sides by two handsome dormers and surmounted by a long, beautifully balustraded belvedere.

  36. The house is two and a half stories high with additions which have somewhat altered its original appearance; it has a gambrel roof, hipped at one end after the Mansard manner with excellent dormers on both the front and end just mentioned.

  37. The cornice and chimney tops are corbelled, and there are iron cresting and finials on the ridge of the hipped roof.

  38. In overall appearance, its square shape, hipped roof and functional design were reminiscent of the eighteenth century buildings of James Wren.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hipped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    down; enthusiastic; obsessed; queer