How to Use piper in a Sentence

piper

noun

• But somebody must pay the piper and this will have to be the black hole itself.
  — Christoph Adami, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2018
• The Queen’s piper will bring the service to a close at midday.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2022
• In a society governed by the rule of law, there is a piper to be paid.
  — Norman Eisen and Dennis Aftergut, CNN, 22 July 2022
• And not just the piper, but everyone involved in the making of a show.
  — Bob Verini, Variety, 15 Sep. 2022
• But more recently demand grown louder than a piper on the loch.
  — Michelle Gross, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2023
• There’s a piper to the sovereign and a grand carver and a royal clock winder.
  — William Booth, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
• The crowd stood when Gee’s family entered, led by a bag piper.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2021
• If the weather is inclement, one piper will perform indoors for a short while.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 6 Mar. 2021
• When the mayor refuses to pay up, the piper does the same to the town's children.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 21 July 2022
• The time had arrived for the Colorado Avalanche and its coach to pay the piper.
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 23 May 2022
• The late Queen's piper also played as the hearse was prepared for the journey south.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2022
• The townspeople agreed, and the piper began to play a lively tune upon his fife.
  — Simon Rich, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
• All along, the pied piper of the Ukraine narrative was Giuliani.
  — Simon Shuster/kiev, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
• After years of lavish spending, the piper, and the writers and the actors, must be paid.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• On Covid lockdown policies that kept children out of school, the time to pay the piper has arrived.
  — Pradheep J. Shanker, National Review, 28 Oct. 2022
• On the day of the queen’s state funeral in September, a lone piper played a lament on the deck.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• Imeem has a few options in its quest to bring in enough revenue to pay the proverbial — and literal — piper.
  — Eliot Van Buskirk, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2009
• Bagpipes will begin to play from a doorway and gradually fade as the piper walks away.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• The Hungarian half-piper turned the sport on its head by attempting no tricks.
  — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• Sara Szabo directs the dancers, and Bentley Wall is the piper.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 10 Mar. 2020
• Further down the road, another piper — just playing to play — is sending his shrill notes out into the night sky.
  — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 5 July 2024
• As revenge, the piper played his music and bewitched all the town’s children to follow him out of the city where they were never seen again.
  — Morgan Jerkins, Teen Vogue, 9 Jan. 2019
• One of the castle’s most famous ghosts is a piper boy who was sent through some of the castle’s underground tunnels—never to be seen again.
  — Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
• Phoebe Philo, that pied-piper of luxe minimalism, is back with her own label after a three-year hiatus.
  — Olivia Hosken, Town & Country, 12 July 2021
• In a common telling of the story, the piper offers to solve the problem in exchange for payment; Hamelin's mayor agrees.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 21 July 2022
• Pay the piper The retail shortages have been reflected in a sharp price markup on Switch sales from secondhand sources.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2020
• Toward the end of the hourlong service, the last post bugle call sounded before a lament played by the queen’s piper brought the ceremony to a grand close.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2022
• When the town refuses to pay him for his services, the piper plays another tune to hypnotize the children and lead them out of the town, never to be seen again.
  — Devi Lockwood, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2019
• Folk bands begin performing at noon, with pipers and Irish dancers adding to the lively atmosphere throughout the afternoon.
  — Jay Jones, latimes.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Opening Day on the Bay got under way Sunday as a Scottish piper blew mournfully.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2021