How to Use lipped in a Sentence

lipped

adjective
  • Each plate comes with a lipped edge to contain any spills.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The company is still tight-lipped about how things will play out.
    — Cade Metz, Wired News, 21 Apr. 2015
  • Democrats have been tight-lipped about their strategy for next week.
    — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Or, stack round, lipped trays with small bowls between to create tiers.
    — WSJ, 16 Dec. 2022
  • On the walls and in the eaves are new nests—open-lipped bulbs of mud drying in the sun.
    — Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Cupp was tight-lipped about any of these key issues, saying the process still has to play out.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Well, not all things, but tight-lipped about some of the things that I was being told.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Mueller and his tight-lipped team have not commented publicly on that.
    — Jen Kirby, Vox, 18 May 2018
  • What’s the point of the court being so tight-lipped about its decisions?
    — Stefanie Lindquist, The Conversation, 23 June 2022
  • Or has someone already seized the job and the staff is keeping things close-lipped?
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2020
  • As to what the project was, however, both remained tight-lipped.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Chuang and the others pressed for case details, but the doctors were tight-lipped.
    — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Kennedy, 81, has been tight-lipped about his plans, and his clout as the court's swing vote is at its zenith.
    — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Gomez, who's been tight-lipped about the show, raved to Variety about her co-stars.
    — Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 29 July 2021
  • All kidding aside, being tight-lipped worked a year ago for Tucker.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 30 Aug. 2022
  • So far, Blue Origin has been tight-lipped as to the price of a ticket.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Those involved were tight-lipped about the actual contents of the show.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
  • In the book, the tight-lipped twosome are suddenly blabbing their heads off.
    — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 2 May 2018
  • At the airport, the gate agents were tight-lipped about the situation.
    — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Odenkirk remains tight-lipped about the final season, careful not to say too much.
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 8 Apr. 2022
  • While Amazon is known to be tight-lipped about its plans, the news shouldn’t have come as a surprise.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2020
  • And the police are being so tight-lipped with so much of the information.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Fringe-lipped bats are masters of acoustic espionage.
    — Leonie Baier, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Since then, the White House has been notably tight-lipped about the incident.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Bumblebees push open the lipped flowers for easy access to its sweetness.
    — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 25 June 2026
  • Bumblebees push open the lipped flowers for easy access to its sweetness.
    — Michelle Darrisaw, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Until now, state and city officials have been tight-lipped about what happened on the night of the shooting.
    — Julie Bosman, New York Times, 18 July 2017
  • With a Western culture of tight-lipped endurance, some just don’t want to broach the subject.
    — Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2020
  • His response marked the third time this week a Dolphins coach was tight-lipped about Jackson’s role.
    — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 23 Nov. 2022
  • And while the group is tight-lipped about what to expect exactly, BoA already has some ideas.
    — Nolan Feeney, Billboard, 25 Feb. 2022

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