if you don't pipe down, we're turning this car around and going straight home!
“Pipe down or I'll cancel recess!” the teacher commanded
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The compressed air is then piped down to enormous sealed salt caverns thousands of feet below the Earth's surface for long-term storage.—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 30 June 2025 At one point, crowd-surfers pulled pipes down from the ceiling.—Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2025 A couple of locals showed up at our campsite telling us to pipe down, this treasure was too good to share.—Leslie Kelly, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025 Longer-term, the FAA is also planning to build a new radar system in Philadelphia, so that controllers there won’t have to rely on the signal piped down from New York anymore.—Josh Funk, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025 Yes and became yes and no, much like a musical conductor tells the strings and woodwinds to play louder and the brass to pipe down.—Michael Alcée, Hartford Courant, 13 Apr. 2025 The freshwater was coming from a sewage-treatment pipe down below.—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025 Respect for other viewers means piping down.—Joel Mathis, theweek, 4 Dec. 2024 The Vidalia fans will need to pipe down once and for all.—Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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