Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lipped
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Everything had to be done first, rocks moved, grass cut, ladders put away, dishes washed.—
Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
30 May 2026 -
As its flippers met sand and the ocean washed across its shell for the first time in six months, Earl Grey charged for home.—
Adam Van Brimmer,
AJC.com,
29 May 2026
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Utilized in treatments and in the decor, gold is all around, and to be bathed in it is quite the indulgence.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 June 2026
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Claremont Resort and Club I was a literal latchkey kid, bathed with a shoestring around my neck in the kitchen sink of a flat in a pale blue Victorian facing Shattuck Avenue, in Berkeley, California.—
Winston Ross,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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Then, after banking as neatly as a flight of fighter planes, the flock of 20 mallards splashed down just out of range of our shotguns.—
Anton Money,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
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Nearby, a little girl splashed in the fountain beneath the landmark flagpole overlooking South Livermore Avenue.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
4 June 2026
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Nassau, the capital city of the Bahamas, is an ideal home base for exploring the United States’ closest Caribbean neighbor, thanks to its dreamy beaches lapped by impossibly blue water and resorts ranging from humble to haute.—
Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 June 2026
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Menšík lapped up the ambience even when his aces were met with silence.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
26 May 2026
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In the years following, Beijing funded or armed fellow communists in Vietnam, North Korea, Burma, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia, causing panic in Washington and other Western capitals as the ideological struggles of the Cold War rippled across Asia.—
Dhruv Tikekar,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
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The ecological shock rippled ashore, collapsing the region’s $44 million red abalone fishery—once the largest in the world.—
Tatjana Baleta,
Time,
28 May 2026
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“Lipped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lipped. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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