Example sentences for: tipped

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

  • That inquiry into the failure of U.S. intelligence to anticipate India's nuclear tests, first tipped last week by the Wall Street Journal , has materialized on the front at USAT and the NYT , and inside at the WP . The findings by retired admiral David Jeremiah and his team: the intelligence community so ignored the new Indian government's statements on nuclear policy that only one U.S. analyst was assigned to examine satellite photos of India's test site.

  • Penujak, a little farther south, produces pottery, including some trick water pots which can be tipped upside down without spilling the contents.

  • The papers report that gifts from that city to two African International Olympic Committee members in 1993 may have tipped the balance in a close vote that saw the Australians beat out Beijing by but two votes.

  • Authorities were tipped off to the smuggling ring when a pilot complained of weak in-flight coffee--it had been accidentally laced with heroin.

  • Herb did it anonymously, of course (though a sharp-eyed reader might have guessed from the drawing of "Prudence" that accompanied the column if they hadn't already been tipped off by the tone).


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