How to Use blip in a Sentence

blip

1 of 2 noun
  • The approaching ship appeared as a blip on the screen.
  • The company's financial problems were just a temporary blip.
  • Was last week’s sell-off a blip or the start of a trend?
    Krystal Hur, CNN, 25 June 2023
  • Not small enough to be a blip on the map, a blink-and-you-miss-it town.
    Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 23 Oct. 2022
  • What Norvell has built has the look and feel of something more than a blip on the screen.
    Tom Layberger, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The flying might just be a little one-foot blip off the ground.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2022
  • In 95 years, Erskine played 11 in the MLB; that's a blip.
    The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2022
  • But there are reasons to wonder whether the past year was a blip.
    David Leonhardt, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Whether that proves to be a blip or a turning point remains to be seen.
    Steve Mollman, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Whether Monday’s numbers are a blip or the start of a trend will, of course, take a while to bear out.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Saad rarely lets the Huskies down, and the error was just a temporary blip.
    Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • What appeared to be a turning point, though, turned out just to be a blip.
    Howard Fendrich, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The decline might be a blip in the data, one that could soon be reversed.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2022
  • These two blips on the nightlife radar were a signal of what’s to come from Think Hotel Group.
    Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • And observers don’t see this as a pandemic blip, but as the way of the future.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • The total loss of output was a blip on the long-term chart of economic growth.
    Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2022
  • The first warning was a blip, a small anomaly picked up by radar scanning the skies over Ukraine.
    Marc Santora, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Of course, the blip on the radar is a 32-13 blowout loss to the Browns on Halloween night that saw Burrow play one of his worst games this season.
    Mohammad Ahmad, cleveland, 14 Jan. 2023
  • In terms of the overall story arc of the season, this contest figures to be a mere blip.
    Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2022
  • But this season, the famous pop artist barely made a blip.
    Zachary Small, New York Times, 22 May 2023
  • For decades, Andy Warhol’s silkscreen portraits of Prince were a blip in his larger oeuvre.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 June 2023
  • In the years since, the red carpet has gone from a blip of the broadcast to a full-scale television production.
    Emily Zauzmer, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Will Dabo Swinney and Clemson show that their Week 1 performance was just a blip on the radar?
    Joe Morgan, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2023
  • In the first half of the recording, the background noise is interrupted by two blips of silence.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • But the study’s experts predict that 2022 may just be a blip in the overall projection for wealth growth.
    Time, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The Wales Bonner iterations are far from a blip in the trend cycle.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Aug. 2023
  • For now, probably nothing beyond a short-term blip on the stock chart.
    Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • This is a structural shift, not a cyclical blip.
    Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • This is just a blip on the radar and a time to grow and get better.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The dynasty set an unfathomably high bar, but Rose’s Bulls are the blip of hope in a long line of misery since.
    The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026

blip

2 of 2 verb
  • And much else that was blipped out from the live telecast.
    David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 12 June 2017
  • But during the last stretch of descent on September 7, just a mile above the lunar surface, the probe blipped out of radio contact.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Peter’s new romantic rival, Brad Davis (Remy Hii), was still a lame tween when his current classmates blipped away.
    Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 3 July 2019
  • Excluding defense, durable goods orders blipped up just 0.1%.
    Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The songs strutted and blipped like bubble gum pop grown colossal, carrying glum lyrics like trophies and building up to gleeful, overwhelming drum barrages.
    Jon Pareles, New York Times, 18 June 2017
  • And utilizing the paddle shifters delivers a pleasingly raucous note — blipping the throttle during downshifts — when set in the Sport+ setting of the Drive Mode Select knob.
    Arv Voss, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says that inflation may blip up a bit, due to the economy’s reopening, then settle down.
    Larry Light, Forbes, 15 May 2021
  • And as independent filmmakers blipped off the map, acting roles for women became few and far between, while producing and directing roles all but disappeared.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Fireflies blipped and burned out, and the cicadas joined in an incantation that crescendoed into an ancient whirr.
    Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025

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