Example sentences for: pipe

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

  • Regiments of soldiers in full dress regalia march precisely to the sound of pipe and drum in the Military Tattoo, and connoisseurs of the silver screen gather for an extravaganza of offerings on celluloid.

  • Thus the sign for iron became Fe (from Latin ferrum ), for gold, Au ( aurum ), for silver, Ag ( argentum ), for copper Cu (cuprum) , for lead, Pb ( plumbum —until steel replaced lead pipe for waterworks, plumbers were, and had been since Roman times, workers in lead).

  • A pipe bomb was found in an Oklahoma school.

  • Consider Jones' pièce de résistance : On "one particular evening," in response to "his inner demons," and more specifically to the Rockefeller Foundation's rejection of a grant application, Kinsey allegedly hanged himself by the hand and balls from an overhead pipe "long enough for this self-appointed Messiah of the sexually despised to experience much pain and suffering, precisely as he had intended."

  • A few critics pipe up with complaints--the film is weightless and a bit air-headed--but most find Lola's whirlwind race against time exhilarating.


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