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Example sentences for "lipped"

Lexicographically close words:
lionlike; lions; lip; lipless; lipoma; lippen; lippes; lipping; lippis; lipps
  1. Woman with the brooding gaze, hear the lilting laughter Of the children that you loved, feel their soft- lipped kisses; Think of all the little joys that a hard world misses- What though bitter loneliness always follows after?

  2. He rallied from his first depression with a tight-lipped determination.

  3. Her thin-lipped smile shaped itself with a tolerant geniality as she came toward him with complacent triumph.

  4. What he saw was a body thin to emaciation and a face drawn into a tight-lipped discontent.

  5. God for a whole continent--that is, they had begun to wrestle; the years that had succeeded found them still eager and shut-lipped for the conflict.

  6. The costume suited his long, rather narrow face, corrugated by two short parallel lines slanting downwards from his eyes and nostrils on either cheek; suited his neat, thin figure and the close-lipped corners of his mouth.

  7. From the expression of her face and figure, she evidently had no idea that she was being followed, but stood with a sort of slack-lipped wonder, lost in admiration of a well-known print.

  8. Evening came, with the glamour of peach-blown valleys and honey-lipped hills, lying under pale stars against the sunset.

  9. That means there's nothing in it for me," she complained with pouting-lipped moroseness.

  10. They call him Never-Fail Blake," commented the unmoved and dry-lipped official.

  11. To strike the man on his fish-like, hard-lipped mouth would only make matters worse, so he once more left the compartment and stood in the open doorway of the vestibule just beyond.

  12. Sam Pretty Cow lipped the edge of his cigarette paper, folded it down smoothly on the tiny roll of tobacco, leaned his body backward and painstakingly drew a match from the small pocket of his grimy blue overalls.

  13. Sam Pretty Cow and Shorty he could hobnob with as of yore,--Sam in particular giving him much pleasure with his unbroken reserve, his unreadable Indian eyes and his wide-lipped grin.

  14. Awhile our feeding hearts all satisfied, Took in the blue of one another's eyes, Two dimpled creatures, rose-lipped innocent.

  15. At these he stared, waiting, and presently found the pallid youth at his elbow, who also stared upon the tomato pyramid with half-closed eyes and with smouldering cigarette pendent from thin-lipped mouth.

  16. No smile she gave in greeting; no light-lipped laughter to these men who had followed her through storm and sun; but on her face rode a look of fierce resolve which caused them to wait the coming of uncertain things.

  17. In silence the people gazed on Menon while one might count a score, then from their throats came a quivering wolf-lipped howl.

  18. He was hideous to look upon, with a bloated paunch, a thick-lipped mouth, and crafty eyes which peeped from their pouch-like rims.

  19. He smiled his close-lipped smile that made wrinkles like gashes in his cheeks.

  20. Ellen was sweet as a flower in her open-lipped beauty, her panting despair.

  21. Swift things had come upon them, things that staggered the tight-lipped community, even though it was used to speed and tragedy.

  22. He found the "Court House crowd" tight-lipped and careful.

  23. A wide-lipped bowl, in clear yellow glass, held rosy pippins or sprawling purple grapes on the table in the window, the sideboard carried old jugs and flagons in blackened silver or dull pottery.

  24. He looked more flabby and loose-lipped than ever, and his leering eyes were streaked plainly with the red veins which told of heavy drinking.

  25. Or one in Avalon's deep-dingled bowers, On which old yellow stars and waneless moons Look softly, while white downy-lipped flowers Lisp faint and fragrant tunes.

  26. Maud is an excellent creature; I've always said so, though in a sort of tight-lipped way she's never approved of me.

  27. Free-lipped the liberal streamlets run, Free shines for all the healthful ray; The still pool stagnates in the sun, The lurid earth-fire haunts decay.

  28. Then, tight-lipped still, she walked determinedly along the path to the gate that led through the berry-jungle to the cabin.

  29. The hard-lipped man stood to one side and the horse--well, moved.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lipped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.