Example sentences for: lip

How can you use “lip” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Most also pay lip service to the idea that murder is not the solution to political problems, generally by making the hero a regretful killer who wishes he could just put down the gun.

  • If they are disappointed or afraid, they try to keep a stiff upper lip when it is the lower lip they are trying to control.

  • ) Similarly, lip salve is insincere flattery, though it may be enjoyed by the recipient nonetheless as a form of ear candy . Lip , with its satisfying mouthfeel (to use the jargon of the food-service industry) and its still-obvious link to an elemental root (the Indo-European leb , with the connotation ""), has formed numerous slang combinations whose meanings touch all the compass points of verbal intention.

  • On Santorini, there is a footpath along the lip of the caldera which leads from the town of Fira to Oia, offering stunning views of the whole area.

  • In what is usually referred to as the most famous experiment in embryology, Hans Spemann and Hilde Mangold (1924) showed that a specific region in early frog embryos called the blastopore lip can induce a second complete embryonic axis, including the head, when transplanted to a host embryo.


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