pipes up

present tense third-person singular of pipe up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for pipes up
Verb
  • Managers can no longer rely on office presence or who speaks up most in meetings.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Wife speaks out after husband doused with gasoline in workplace assault.
    , FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • In it, Allen's wife, Kathy Allen, speaks out for the first time and maintains her husband's innocence, per the trailer.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Kylie, 33, shouts in the background, trying to prevent an accident.
    Georgia Slater, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • There is an inherent lack of trust and confidence that comes from visiting a website that shouts at you.
    Talie Smith, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In episode 3, which came out in April, Howard’s character cries when Seth Rogen’s studio head character gives him a difficult piece of feedback, resulting in Howard angrily throwing his signature baseball cap at him.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Fraser threatens to leave but doesn’t and ends up being the one to comfort Kyle, who cries about having hurt his friend.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Joe goes back outside—again he’s seen from Ted’s perspective—and yells at him to turn the music down.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In a noisy, uncertain world, your team does not want someone who yells the loudest or moves the fastest.
    Scott Hozebin, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • What To Know The petition was filed by Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie and calls for a vote on a bill, written by Massie and California Democrat Ro Khanna which would require the Justice Department to release the Epstein files within 30 days.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Pakistan has all the trappings of democracy, a parliament, a prime minister, judiciary, a noisy press but after putting the country’s most popular leader Imran Khan behind bars two years ago, the army calls the shots.
    Mohammed Hanif, Time, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Pipes up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pipes%20up. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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