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Example sentences for "lip"

Lexicographically close words:
lionised; lionized; lionizing; lionlike; lions; lipless; lipoma; lipped; lippen; lippes
  1. Then I bit my lip and watched him go by and disappear.

  2. His face was averted and I could catch only a glimpse of his profile; but I was convinced that I saw his lip tremble.

  3. Through the ship the word went from lip to lip that yonder lay the coast of Guinea.

  4. Her scornful lip quivered, and there was a convulsive movement in her throat.

  5. She drummed upon the carpet with her foot, while her upper lip twitched nervously.

  6. She put the demand sharply, her short upper lip quivering, cheeks flushed, eyes flaming.

  7. The labrum and the complicated lamina formed by the lip and the jaws leave between them a narrow slit in which the mandibles work.

  8. The jaws and the lower lip are not sufficiently visible to lend themselves to accurate description.

  9. This is the lower lip with its two palpi.

  10. It is flanked right and left by two other parts, likewise fleshy, adhering closely to the lip and bearing at the tip a rudimentary palp consisting of two or three very tiny joints.

  11. His clean-shaved face and new apparel made him vastly different.

  12. That was the first time she had ever shown anything, approaching ridicule for Joel.

  13. The middle of Colonel Lackaday's upper lip was sucked in.

  14. I recollected that the fat miscreant had the middle of his upper lip curiously sunken into the space of two missing front teeth.

  15. He raised himself upon his haunches, beast-like, and with the lifting of a sneering lip that disclosed his grinding teeth, he gave a cry that was both a snarl and a sob.

  16. A hush fell upon the loungers as they looked upon the pinched, malignant face with the upper lip lifted quiveringly and the close-set teeth showing beneath.

  17. I was now a part of the ragged edge of the flotsam tossed up by the approaching lip of the flood.

  18. From lip to lip the fragrant pipe passed, yet even its softening influence could not move to speech the lips it touched.

  19. His enormous jaws are widely opened at each expiration, his under lip hangs over the chin, and the hairy ridge and scalp are contracted upon the brow, presenting an aspect of indescribable ferocity.

  20. Mr. Carlyle's lip curled; he continued his way and drew the peer with him.

  21. Lady Levison bit her lip and bowed coldly; and at that moment a servant appeared to conduct Mr. Carlyle to Sir Peter.

  22. The force of this, for some reason, did not overwhelm his wife; and her lip curled a little, half in contempt, half in risibility.

  23. Her lip was quivering, and she was still under the influence of the excitement which the visit of these people had brought about.

  24. His thick lower lip crept over in front of the upper one, A gleam stirred in the deep-set gray eyes.

  25. He had his mother's under lip and complexion.

  26. Then she straightened, and only the quiver of her lip marked the effort.

  27. And so his lip quivered as he sang:-- "Petit Rocher de la Haute Montagne, Je vien finir ici cette campagne!

  28. Edward was dazed by the shock, his lower lip quivered and fell.

  29. When Vesuvius is silent, pygmies may make faces on the very lip of the crater, and they on the slopes forget the black terror of the fiery hail.

  30. Still she did not speak, but her lip trembled, and the love leaping in his eyes kindled a yearning in hers,--a yearning she was powerless to resist.

  31. My lip trembled, for I was very hungry, and the rich steam from the hominy was as much as I could stand.

  32. How her eyes shone and her lip trembled as she gazed at him, Stephen has never forgotten.

  33. Not a lip trembled nor an eye faltered when a backwoodsman, his memory aflame at sight of the pitiful white scalps on their belts, thrust through the crowd to curse them.

  34. VIII But, Lizbie Browne, I let you slip; Shaped not a sign; Touched never your lip With lip of mine, Lost Lizbie Browne!

  35. XII So that wherefore should I be here, Watching Adda lip the lea, When the whole romance to see here Is the dream I bring with me?

  36. His story too is confirmed by our poet in the sixth AEneid,[230] where he speaks of "Fabricius strong in his poverty.

  37. The part is to the whole, as to an end and highest good which is aimed at; and, therefore, the order in the parts is to the order in the whole, as it is to the end and highest good aimed at.

  38. The playful lip shewed he could yet appreciate a flash of wit or spark of humour.

  39. Her lip curled not with hauteur, nor was her brow raised one shadow the more.

  40. George was thinner perhaps, than when at Rome, and his lip had lost its lustrous red; but he concealed his physical sufferings, and always met Henry with the same soft undeviating smile.

  41. But Stern resisted all these impulses, and now already had driven the Pauillac right to the lip of the vast nothingness.

  42. Try as he might, he could not banish from his mind the horrible picture of that boiling vat as it must have looked, crammed to the lip with the tumbling, crowding bodies of the dead.

  43. The presence of the girl set his heart throbbing heavily, but he bit his lip and restrained every untoward thought.

  44. Her lip alone, the new born rose; Her breath, the breath of spring; Her voice is sweet as even those Of angels when they sing.

  45. Your lip quivers, and your cheek is as blanched as a templar's gown.

  46. During their absence, Philip strode up and down the pavement, his arms ringing as he trod, while the bitter gnawing of his nether lip showed but too plainly the burning passions that were kindled in his bosom.

  47. Agnes, raising her voice, while her eye flashed with an unwonted fire, and her lip curled with a touch of scorn.

  48. The king's lip curled, but he remained silent.

  49. John, his eye flashing and his lip curling at his nephew's bold reply--"thou art a stubborn fool!

  50. All power and strength seemed to go out of the Brabançois' limbs; his arms hung useless by his side, his knees bent, and his nether lip quivered with the very act of fear.

  51. I give thee, wrought elaborate, a cup Itself all silver, bound with lip of gold.

  52. I give thee wrought elaborate a cup, Itself all silver, bound with lip of gold.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lip" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    articulate; bank; bathe; bell; bilge; blister; blob; blow; board; border; boss; bow; breathe; brim; brink; brow; bubble; bugle; bulb; bulge; bump; bunch; button; chime; chine; chorus; clarion; clump; coast; communicate; condyle; convey; deliver; disclose; doodle; ear; edge; emit; enunciate; express; fife; flange; flap; flippancy; flute; formulate; frame; fringe; gall; give; gnarl; handle; hem; hill; horn; hump; hunch; impart; impudence; jaw; key; kiss; knob; knot; lap; lave; ledge; limb; lip; list; loop; lump; margin; mole; mountain; mouth; mouthpiece; nubbin; peck; peg; phrase; pipe; present; pronounce; provoke; raise; reed; rib; ridge; rim; ring; sauce; say; selvage; shore; shoulder; side; skirt; slide; smack; sound; spine; stud; style; tell; tongue; toot; tootle; trumpet; tubercle; tweedle; utter; valve; verge; vesicle; voice; wale; wart; wash; welt; whisper; whistle; wind; word


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    lips parted; lips were