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Example sentences for "lips"

Lexicographically close words:
lippen; lippes; lipping; lippis; lipps; lipstick; lipt; lique; liquefaction; liquefied
  1. The boys looked at each other; one name was trembling on the lips of both, but it was too fearful a thought to utter.

  2. A blind leader of the blind I had been for nearly half a century, until a few words from the lips of a child taught me myself.

  3. His lips would not utter the words, but they both finished it for themselves: "That Hubert may die in peace.

  4. Ibbetson noticed that she became pale, and that her lips quivered.

  5. That he saw it was evident, for he drew back at once, but it was with a smile on his lips which a close observer might have called triumphant.

  6. The two who were left looked at each other as she ran off--he with open admiration, she with a tremulous quiver of her lips not lost upon him.

  7. Then he looked at Bice; her eyes were fixed eagerly, inquiringly upon him, the breath came quickly through her parted lips as she leaned forward.

  8. Presently from her lips will come the cry of deliverance, "Open, open now the gates!

  9. And as he said so he pressed to his lips the hand that had been resting on his shoulder, and which he took hold of just as it was being removed.

  10. But though he opened his eyes with astonishment, he did not open his lips to say why he did so.

  11. Lips that I pressed to my own, As I gazed at her yielding form,-- Turned with a groan, and then hastened alone Into the teeth of the Storm!

  12. Dolores' lips for all Doña Ana could tell.

  13. With the instinct of the soldier hurt in the chest, he brushed his lips with the small lace ruffle of his sleeve, and looked at it, expecting to see the bright red stains that might mean death.

  14. An angry flush rose in her cheek, she bit her lips till they almost bled, and at last she stamped once before she turned away, so that her little slipper sent a sharp echo along the corridor.

  15. Dolores' lips were white, and she steadied herself against a chair.

  16. He paused, watching her mouth, and he saw that she was making a superhuman effort to control herself, pressing the beautiful lips together, though they moved gainfully in spite of her, and visibly lost colour.

  17. Mendoza's lips set themselves tightly under his grey beard, and he uttered no sound.

  18. He touched her hair with his lips and went on speaking, as she leaned back against the wall again.

  19. The splendid words rang from her lips like a voice from heaven, and her eyes were divinely lightened.

  20. He could not hear her answers, for she spoke without words to his heart, hiding her face where she heard it throbbing, while her lips pressed many kisses on the velvet.

  21. He saw the words on her lips rather than heard them, and she saw in his face that she was right.

  22. And with that name on his lips he was gone.

  23. Redder were her cheeks than the rose, fairer was her visage than the swan upon the wave, and more sweet was the taste of her balsam lips than honey mingled through red wine.

  24. What is thy name," said Murtough, "that it may not come upon my lips to utter it?

  25. Her hair was of a golden hue, her blue eyes clear and cloudless; her honey lips of the colour of the berries, and her slender brows of loveliest form.

  26. He filled the horn from the well and drank, but had scarcely taken it from his lips when he saw a fully armed wizard champion advancing to meet him with looks and gestures of angry menace.

  27. Hyde's plan of taking down their tales from the lips of the peasants, and reproducing them, whether from their Irish or Hiberno-Irish, as clearly as they were able to do so.

  28. I cannot," said the cake, "for I am broken and bruised, and my blood is on the lips of the sleeping children.

  29. She saw the pouting lips and the downcast eyes.

  30. A rose flush came on her cheeks, her lips pouted redly, and her eyes glittered under a mist.

  31. Sylvia bent and touched her thin, very cold lips to Rose's.

  32. She opened her lips to speak, when a boy came running into the yard.

  33. Henry opened his lips to speak, but a glance from Horace checked him.

  34. The flush on her rounded cheeks and her full lips was like a baby's.

  35. But now she smiled, and with her lips and her eyes.

  36. Her lips fairly tingled to kiss it, but she put the impulse sternly from her.

  37. Both smoked in silence, sitting on the bench, before Horace opened his lips in response to Henry's inquiry.

  38. Carinthia submissively sipped the sparkling wine, which stings the lips when they are indisposed to it.

  39. She drew the breath of pain through the lips: red lips and well cut.

  40. But the name of her sister- in-law on her lips returned the stroke neatly.

  41. Her lips were shut, as to any hint at his treatment of her.

  42. The warnings put by Josephus into the lips of the priests in his childhood, were likely enough to have been spoken by some one before he was forty years old.

  43. The words which rise naturally to the lips of men who think thus cannot fail to do Him honour, for out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh.

  44. The pomp of an obsequious court was a poor thing in the eyes of an ambassador of God, who entered the palace to speak such lofty words as never passed the lips of any son of Pharaoh's daughter.

  45. His lips moved without speaking, and his face assumed a look betokening inward suffering.

  46. Beissels's sensitive lips quivered a moment; this sudden rebellion surprised him, and he did not at first see how to meet it.

  47. In the battle or on the road a song or a laugh was always on his lips and the hearts of his men leaped up to meet his gayety as well as his fearlessness.

  48. When intense pain forced a moan from his lips he would look up pathetically and apologize, saying: "You must not mind my moaning, little one.

  49. Putting her friend's whistle to her lips she approached the cage.

  50. For one minute we were clasped in each other's arms; her cold lips pressed mine for the first time.

  51. The lady put a little silver whistle to her lips and blew it.

  52. The head which was as large as a clenched fist was wide and short, the turned-up nose had spreading nostrils, and the lips were yellow.

  53. His back was bent, his face paler, and his lips bloodless.

  54. For some time a cold wind had been blowing and when we passed our tongues over our lips we tasted salt.

  55. The monkey put his hand to his lips and threw a kiss to each of us.

  56. Then with her lips and hands, and above all with her eyes, she explained to me why she wished this.

  57. The language of the lips is a small thing compared with the language of the eyes; how cold and empty are words compared with looks!

  58. But soon he took his eyes off the book; his lips stopped moving.

  59. The sudden pallor of my face and the trembling of my lips told him what effect his words had on me.

  60. He had white pointed teeth like a dog and when he smiled he drew his lips back over them as though he was going to bite.

  61. Lise stood opposite me, moving her lips as though repeating the words.

  62. Nothing from your lips could seem dreadful.

  63. Something very different from this conclusion had been expected, and even Mrs. Gollinger's lips curled with a slightly ironic smile.

  64. I put her from me gently: it was not the kiss I wanted, and the touch of her lips hardened me.

  65. And as the key rattled in the door she laid her lips on his brow.

  66. Mrs. Clinch leaned back and shaped her lips to a whistle which deflected in a laugh.

  67. They were his, those white hands with their flitting motions, his the light haze of hair, the lips and eyes.

  68. Her face cleared at once, and as she looked at him across the flowers, between the rosy candle-shades, he saw her lips waver back into a smile.

  69. So it came quite easily to his lips to ask me to write to him,--a high honour, likewise an order.

  70. Thy lips were ruddy and calm, my lassie, Thy lips were ruddy and calm; But gane was the holy breath o' Heaven, That sang the evening psalm.

  71. Lips of cherry confine Teeth of ivory shine, And with blushes combine To keep us in thrall.

  72. When baith bent doun owre ae braid page, Wi' ae buik on our knee, Thy lips were on thy lesson--but My lesson was in thee.

  73. Her neck was o' the snaw-drap hue, Her lips like roses wet wi' dew; But O!

  74. While thus, aneath my tartan plaid, Sae warmly to my lips I press ye; That hinnied bloom o' dewy red Is nocht like thy sweet lips, dear lassie!

  75. They almost never opened their lips without an allusion to their divinities.

  76. As the question crossed her lips both girls saw a familiar girlish figure, strangely burdened, running toward them as fast as the weight she carried would permit her to run.

  77. Her lips formed a silent, "After school," and Mary nodded understandingly.

  78. Turning to the child she laid her finger on her lips with a gesture of silence.

  79. On second thought she closed her lips tightly, resolved to make no protest.

  80. Marjorie's lips smiled tender reminiscence of the tiny boy's jubilation over his wonderful discovery that Santa Claus had not forgotten him.

  81. There her mind reverted to the coming contest and she set her lips in silent determination.

  82. The silent lips were proudly curled In a confident, glad smile.

  83. For there were evil angels Who sealed my lips so close.

  84. And with bitter lips he questions the waves: "Oh solve me the riddle of life!

  85. Oh press thy lips against my lips, Divine is mortal breath; I drink thy very soul from thee.

  86. Night lay upon my eyelids, About my lips earth clave; With stony heart and forehead I lay within my grave.

  87. Yes, they are the self-same eyes That still brighten as I greet her, Yes, they are the self-same lips That made all my life seem sweeter.

  88. Ne'er can I believe, young beauty, Thy disdainful lips alone: For such big black eyes as thine are Virtue never yet did own.

  89. How enviously the sea-mew Looks after us, my dear; Because upon thy lips then So close I pressed mine ear.

  90. How sick knights in such ocean-trials, Pressed to their lips with equal comfort The dear glove of their lady.

  91. The sweet enclosure Of the lovely lips in smiling!

  92. And wilt thou force my haughty lips To beg and supplicate?

  93. Maiden with the lips of scarlet, Clearest, sweetest eyes that be, O my darling little maiden, Ever do I think of thee!

  94. Though thou wert fain to pass me quickly, Yet backward didst thou look by chance; Thy wistful lips were frankly parted, Impetuous scorn was in thy glance.

  95. On the azure vault of heaven, Where the beauteous stars are shining, I am fain to press my lips now, Wildly press midst stormy weeping.

  96. I saw upon her lips then A wondrous smile arise, And as with tears of pity Glistened once more her eyes.

  97. The child pressed her lips to his cheek, but the lips were cold.

  98. His lips then were silent--not his heart!

  99. He said: 'A little while ago I should have said, Yea, If thy lips say the words.

  100. Who shall say what words my lips shall fashion when we stand together victorious in Silver-dale; then indeed may the time seem long from now.

  101. What lips shall be kinder on lips of mine laid?

  102. Grey-eyed she was like her brother; but her hair the colour of red wheat: her lips full and red, her chin round, her nose fine and straight.

  103. Then he caught her in his arms and strained her to him, and then kissed her lips and her face again and again, and she strove not with him.

  104. I will therefore beg of you not to give that answer to-day, the more so that it would indeed be painful to me to hear it from your own lips if it where not a favorable one.

  105. Her parted lips are smiling a pure and placid smile; but she is taken at intervals with terrible spasms, and her features are becoming terribly altered.

  106. There is a jealous fiend who checks on my lips every word of affection, and imparts to it a tone of irony.

  107. Never has any other man heard from my lips a single word of tenderness, never!

  108. He made a gesture of indignation and grief, then went by with closed lips and eyelids that drooped.

  109. It knew it all, but it went steadily, with lips that could yet manage a .

  110. Bending, he pressed his lips on her bare arm.

  111. His eyes lengthened and narrowed, his lips widened.

  112. It was not long before that portion of the Army of Tennessee that had occasion from day to day to pass the house began to look with eagerness for the smiling eyes and lips of Désirée Gaillard.

  113. He wet his lips and thought that he spoke aloud, but probably it was only in thought.

  114. Steve ceased to nurse his ankle, straightened his lean red body, and widening his lips until his lean red jaws wrinkled, turned to his hostess.

  115. Their metal was cold, their lips no longer red; they stood like four sentinels frozen in death.

  116. For a minute or more the spirit sank, then the will put its lips to some deep reservoir and drank.

  117. Rifle barrels grew too hot to touch; all lips were blackened with cartridge powder.

  118. She bent again over the child, and touched her lips lightly to the little face, and when she looked up her own was softened.

  119. She lifted her face to the young man's, and her lips pouted almost imperceptibly.

  120. Ida was impassive, with her smiling lips contracted.

  121. Finally, Lily remarked that it was a beautiful night, and it was as exactly what might have been expected from her flower-like lips as the squeaking call for mamma of a talking doll.

  122. Her lips were resolutely compressed, as if to restrain that radiant smile of hers, which had become habitual with her.

  123. She gazed with wide-open eyes like a child, the rose flush deepened on her cheeks, her parted lips became moist and deep crimson, pulses throbbed in her throat.

  124. Eunice's lips quivered a little and her eyes reddened.

  125. When the scholars were all in their places, she opened her lips to express her mind to them, but a second's reflection seemed to show her the futility of it.

  126. Her lips were open, she made inarticulate noises like a frightened little monkey.

  127. Then suddenly her lips quivered and a tear rolled down the lovely curve of her cheek.

  128. Her pretty lips were disfigured with fever-sores.

  129. Maria turned very pale, but she listened with smiling lips to Evelyn's essay.

  130. The memory of the kiss became very pleasant to him, and he seemed to feel Lily's lips upon his own like a living flower which thrilled the heart.

  131. With her hand still aching from Martial’s brutal clasp, her heart swelling with rage and hatred, and her face whiter than her bridal veil, she yet had sufficient strength to restrain her tears and force her lips to smile.

  132. And for the first and only time in life he clasped her in his arms, and pressed his lips to her pallid cheek.

  133. It might have been supposed that these incidents did not in the least affect Jean Lacheneur, who stood by cold and unmoved, with compressed lips and downcast eyes.

  134. Her beautiful face had the motionless pallor of marble; her half-open colourless lips disclosed her teeth, clenched convulsively, and a large dark blue circle surrounded her closed eyelids.

  135. Blanche sprang up with a face as colourless as her white cashmere morning dress, her eyes dazed, and her lips trembling.

  136. A threatening light gleamed in the priest’s eyes, and his lips trembled for a moment.

  137. She would sit for whole days motionless in her chair, her eyes fixed upon vacancy, her lips contracted as if by a spasm, while great tears rolled silently down her cheeks.

  138. His small grey eyes glittered in a threatening fashion; his thin lips were drawn tightly over his sharp teeth; he evidently expected some proposition of murder, and was ready to accomplish it.

  139. A faint smile flitted over the young farmer’s lips as he replied: “The others were M.

  140. The latter resisted, however, swearing that he would not leave Sairmeuse unless he were forcibly expelled, or unless he received the order from the lips of the duke himself.

  141. I shall never leave my house without fear of a bullet; never lift food to my lips without dread of poison.

  142. The Captain draws his kindly lips together, and attacks his black bread and tinned mackerel.

  143. His pie-coloured face was hollow, his lips were dry, his eyes standing out of his head.

  144. Old Caspiar frames the word with his lips rather than utter them.

  145. The set of their lips was firm and grim beyond all words.

  146. For those lips are almost babyish in their curves, the lips of a man who would drink the cold pure water of life in preference to its coloured vintages, the lips of an idealist.

  147. They are bathed in smiles that keep breaking over their lips and eyes like sun-kissed breakers on a summer strand, and everything they say ends in a broken laugh.

  148. I saw their fair florid faces, their grim lips and blazing eyes.


  149. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lips" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alveolus; apex; back; bag; balls; basket; beard; blade; breast; cervix; chaps; chops; clitoris; gab; genitals; gonads; jaw; jaws; jowl; larynx; lips; mandibles; maw; meat; mouth; mug; mush; muzzle; ovary; palate; penis; phallus; pharynx; pudenda; scrotum; teeth; testes; testicles; tip; tongue; trap; uterus; vagina; vulva; womb


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