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Example sentences for "pipings"

Lexicographically close words:
pipestem; pipestone; pipette; pipettes; piping; pipit; pipits; pipkin; pipkins; pipped
  1. Banished is the white Foam-born Not from here, nor under ban Phoebus lyrist, Phoebe's horn, Pipings of the reedy Pan.

  2. Presently, above the next point, I heard their pipings and the sharp, up-sliding Cheeeep!

  3. When the fishermen hove into sight, and their eager pipings came faintly up the lake ahead of them, I paddled hastily out and turned loose a half-dozen chub in the shallow water.

  4. Continue making pipings of Carnation, plant out, or transplant hardy perennials into the borders.

  5. He closed his eyes and tried not to listen to the distant screams, pipings and reedy cries filtering down from the street above his head.

  6. Almost instantly, it seemed, the dawn was upon him and bright elfin pipings were all about him, while the odd ruddy sun sent a broad slanting plane of light across the room.

  7. Dan noted a subtle difference in the world about him; outlines were vague, the thin flower pipings less audible, and the very landscape was queerly unstable, shifting like smoke when he wasn't looking at it directly.

  8. And there were birds--at least, curiously lovely pipings and twitterings were all about him though he saw no creatures--thin elfin whistlings like fairy bugles sounded softly.

  9. Yet still the sweet pipings followed them, now loud, now whisper-soft, in a tenuous web of melody.

  10. They traced the little river from still pool to singing rapids, and ever about them were the strange twitterings and pipings that were the voices of the flowers.

  11. Pale throats began to throb rhythmically; and the pipings once more pulsed forth buoyant and strong.

  12. The light strips are of clipped mountain sheepskin; the dark one of dark brown deerskin; the pipings of the thin fawn skin, and the tags of red worsted.

  13. The back of the hand is covered with brown deerskin, hair out, into which is inserted the square ornamental pattern in which the light stripes are white deerskin and the dark pipings the usual almost hairless fawnskin.

  14. A silence followed, broken only by the singing of a little bird aloft in the cedar-tree, whose ecstatic pipings aptly expressed the unspoilt joys of innocence and trust.

  15. If genius summons the god Pan to pipe a roundelay, pipings there shall be!

  16. Pipings are cuttings of Pinks and Carnations, and, indeed, are applicable to all plants having jointed tubular stems.

  17. Most gardeners snip off the tips of the outer leaves of pipings and cuttings, because then they can see more easily when new leaves are forming.

  18. There are three ways of increasing your stock of Carnations: by layers, by pipings or cuttings, and by seed.

  19. They are increased by pipings taken in May or June.

  20. Break off the pipings at the third joint, then in each piping cut a little upward slit, plant them pretty thickly in the sand, and place the pot on a gentle hotbed, or on a bed of sifted coal ashes.

  21. Reuben 'abode in the sheepfolds to hear the pipings to the flocks.

  22. As yet the din and hubbub was that made by men, but their shrill pipings were suddenly silenced by the crashing voice of a thunder-squall that burst right over our heads.

  23. But Wordsworth, after all, was the man of most practical mind of any of the persons connected with literature whom he had encountered; though his pastoral pipings were far from being of the importance his admirers imagined.

  24. The pink pipings should now be planted out in beds, and the seeds of many bulbous flowers, such as tulips, hyacinths, lilies, may be sown to obtain new varieties.


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