Example sentences for: tipped

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

  • It reported that White House officials had tipped off the Democratic National Committee in 1995 about Grigori Loutchansky, a bad-egg Latvian businessman with alleged ties to the Russian Mafia.

  • Running FAA/insulation as its off-lead, USAT goes instead with a story tipped yesterday on the LAT front--the feds charging fugitive Eric Robert Rudolph, already wanted for an Alabama abortion clinic bombing, with the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing.

  • 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.

  • What I like about this story is that it's a perfect tabloid story--a heart-tugging human-interest piece, with lots of celebrity names--and, since both tabloids were clearly tipped off to it, it provides an ideal opportunity to compare and contrast the New York Post and the Daily

  • One was nonverbal: on seeing his wife off at the railway station, he is reported to have kissed the porter and tipped his wife sixpence.


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