How to Use lip in a Sentence

lip

1 of 3 noun

• He had a cut on his lip.
• She was nervously biting her lip.
• His lips puffed with each breath.
  — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 June 2026
• Filler is not just for the lips.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 27 Oct. 2025
• The rise off the lip of the jump.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2026
• This lip serum gives you just that.
  — Gina Vaynshteyn, StyleCaster, 8 Sep. 2025
• His lips, nose, and ears were black.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
• Her lips and mouth were filled with blood.
  — Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
• Brown topped off her look with bold red lip.
  — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 20 Feb. 2026
• The word from here is to keep your lip zipped.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 22 Apr. 2026
• Was a big pile of lip balm worth all those hours?
  — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
• The lips don’t track with the rest of the look.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2026
• Her lips were forced back by a cram of crooked fangs.
  — Stephen King, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
• Wait, so this is all just to sell me lip kits?
  — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
• Mylene loves to rock a red lip.
  — Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
• Langdon brought the mic back to his lips.
  — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• Her lips pressed in a rueful grin.
  — Richard Greenberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
• Ghadimi licked her lips over and over.
  — Babak Dehghanpisheh, NBC news, 13 Feb. 2026
• Devices for body, lips and more.
  — Tory Johnson, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
• Her bottom lip dropped and a tiny squeak emerged.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
• Her lips were also lined in a dark caramel shade.
  — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
• Starting the new year with dry, chapped lips?
  — Jeaneen Russell, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
• The lesson is how to make your own lip scrub.
  — Libby Smith, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
• One, a shiny, semi-sheer black lip.
  — Essence, 23 Sep. 2025
• Just watch her Lea Michele lip sync.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2026
• Marcela closed her lips tight and gently shook her head.
  — Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
• The poison of vipers is on their lips—and yet stop.
  — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
• And then purse your lips a little bit, open your eyes.
  — Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
• Then bit my own lips hard until the painful lump went away.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
• As the years tick by, the lips become a bit of a rebel.
  — Micaela English, Glamour, 30 Apr. 2026

lip

2 of 3 adjective

• Play it up with a lip pencil or gloss, or rock it on its own!
  — Chelsea Hall, Marie Claire, 10 Mar. 2020
• Is that enough to convince you to break out the lip liner again?
  — Andrea Lavinthal, Cosmopolitan, 27 July 2009
• Use lip balm with sunscreen as well, to protect your lips from the sun, wind, and cold.
  — Harvard Health Letter, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• This time around, the dynamic duo is giving us much more than lip kits.
  — Angela Trakoshis, Allure, 24 Mar. 2020
• But the bone broth is the draw; choose chicken or beef, both respectably gamy and lip-coating.
  — Molly Young, Bon Appetit, 22 June 2017
• That bit about Crawford being a symbol wasn’t just lip service.
  — Joanna Robinson, vanityfair.com, 5 Mar. 2017
• Both are complete with a matte liquid lipstick and lip pencil.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 27 Sep. 2017
• Live music, fresh cut Christmas tree market, lip sync battle and more.
  — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• Drag used to be very live-performance heavy, and the pendulum has just swung towards lip sync right now.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• But in the West, fame has long been the explicit endgame for warriors and lip gloss magnates alike.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019
• And maybe women who only want to carry lip gloss and a debit card can manage with the cutest of tiny purses.
  — Amanda Walker, AL.com, 9 June 2017
• Not using a lip brush turned out to be my problem with the Fenty Beauty lip paint.
  — Marisa Meltzer, The Seattle Times, 7 Sep. 2018
• Wearing @kkwbeauty lipstick shade 3 in the center and 4 all over with lip liner 2.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 13 June 2018
• Shadows and the glow from windows and bare bulbs impede lip reading, signing, and other visual forms of gab.
  — Lisa A. Goldstein, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2020
• Just like last season, four queens are advancing to the finale, which looks to be another epic lip sync showdown.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 14 June 2018
• Cosplay events include a craftsmanship contest, a dating game and a lip sync battle.
  — Courant Staff, courant.com, 9 July 2018
• Expect some swelling the first day or two, so don't have lip injections the same afternoon as an important date or meeting.
  — Micaela English, Town & Country, 14 June 2022
• And above-neck, the pigment popped best from lip level, finishing would-be dramatic beauty looks with a hint of buoyancy.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2018
• At the very least, fans can expect some new riff on a Kylie Cosmetics palette, lip kit or makeup shade named after the tune.
  — Lindsay Weinberg, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2019
• Devgan says that women with long philtrum distances often choose lip fillers and don't realize lip fillers aren't the best solution in their case.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Aug. 2019
• There's no word on what the complete collection will include, yet, but the video does seem to point to lip products and a set of possible eyeshadow.
  — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 22 Aug. 2018
• Customers can currently purchase an array of beauty products aside from lip kits, which are now available in a variety of shades.
  — Zoe Szathmary, Fox News, 19 July 2018
• As wild as the idea of a museum for Kylie might sound, a convention devoted to all things lip kits isn't entirely out of the question.
  — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 17 Jan. 2020
• One veteran who completed the program wants to start a honey mustard business; another wants to make lip balms using bee wax.
  — Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2019
• The full collection included four lipstick shades, four lip glosses, an eye-shadow palette, two lip pencils, and a bronzer.
  — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 21 June 2018
• Higgenbotham said this is especially important for women over 30 whose lip line may have started to blur with age.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 8 Mar. 2018
• Prabal Gurung taught our beauty director Kathleen Hou how to use lip gloss as eye shadow.
  — Emily Sundberg, The Cut, 11 Sep. 2017
• TikTok is a smartphone app in which users can capture short videos of themselves, usually lip syncing or dancing to popular songs.
  — NBC News, 3 Oct. 2019
• Cups are cut out of the sheet then enter a lip roller — imagine parallel coffee cans, spiraling fast, just barely touching — that curls the white edge of each cup in and under.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
• Bobbi Brown’s lip pencil in Chocolate was drawn over the lips first, and then Telluride, a brownish-mauve lipstick, was patted on top.
  — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 13 Sep. 2017

lip

3 of 3 verb

• Few putts here or there that lipped out that should have gone in.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 14 June 2023
• Pernice had a birdie putt of about eight feet that lipped out.
  — Mike James, latimes.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Rae rose to fame by posting short dance and lip syncing clips.
  — Marisa Dellatto, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
• Sutherland could've won it on the fifth extra hole but watched his putt lip out.
  — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2020
• Dry lips are a thing of the past with this set of Burt’s Bees lip balms.
  — Kiana Murden, CNN Underscored, 14 Dec. 2020
• In that round, his birdie bid at the 18th for a 62 lipped out of the cup.
  — Jesse Smithey, Detroit Free Press, 31 Mar. 2018
• The sheriff's office is being tight-lipped about the cause of death.
  — Sheila Vilvens, Cincinnati.com, 3 July 2019
• Sutherland had a 20-foot birdie putt lip out on the fifth playoff hole.
  — John Marshall, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2020
• Tokarski slipped his thumb in the fish's mouth and carefully lipped it through the hole.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2020
• There's something for everyone, whether that's a new cleanser, essence, or lip tint.
  — Sarah Han, Allure, 12 July 2022
• Not all lip balms offer the kind of long-lasting hydration this one does.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 June 2026
• How long is the hair and makeup process with your Mohawk, tattoos and lip?
  — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2022
• Instead, five female models and five male models lip synced the lyrics.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2019
• Participants should choose a favorite song to lip sync and pair it with their best dance moves.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2020
• Silky Nutmeg Ganache primed and ready to lip-sync for her motherf---ing life?
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
• Artists are paying thousands of dollars for your fave creators to dance and lip sync to their tracks.
  — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 12 June 2020
• Very gently bite on your partner's tongue or lip mid-makeout, and see how your boo reacts.
  — Yerin Kim, Seventeen, 7 May 2021
• And Stuart is supposed to lip-sync along with us while the band is playing along with the tracks.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
• Throughout the sixth season, the queens acted, danced, sewed and lip synched their way into the top four.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2021
• Sound does not carry as well when social distancing, and with the masks off, many cannot see well enough to lip read.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 6 May 2021
• Woods' eagle putt lipped out, and the hole was halved, with Woods and Manning 3 up.
  — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2020
• Fans have already seen queens who can lip sync for their lives, queens who create stunning looks, and queens who perform well.
  — Braedon Montgomery, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• Those videos online of cops lip synching or anything with humor shows the police are not all scary all the time.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Apr. 2021
• That one lipped out, leaving a bogey putt that was 10 inches longer than the par effort.
  — Eamon Lynch, Golfweek, 15 Feb. 2020
• Singers like Mangeshkar were hired to record the songs in advance and to which actors would lip sync or a sequence would play out on screen.
  — Swati Gupta, CNN, 6 Feb. 2022
• After that, Dynevor touches up her brows, does a bit of contouring, some blush and lip liner.
  — Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 26 Jan. 2022
• The gap-toothed dancer extraordinaire has suffered nearly every week, and has had to lip sync in two out of three episodes.
  — Shaad D'souza, Vulture, 22 May 2021
• Sasha, who never had to lip sync for her life during the season, soared when challenged in the final two rounds of lip syncing.
  — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 June 2017
• Fans are poring over the book stacks, sleep sprays and lip balms for insight into the tastes and psyches of some of the world’s most famous people.
  — Lane Florsheim, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
• The line includes beard oils, beard balms, hand and lip balms, and men’s grooming accessories ($5-$48).
  — oregonlive, 4 Oct. 2021