How to Use pipe up in a Sentence

pipe up

verb
  • John will probably have to be the one to pipe up and say that.
    — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Teddy’s babyish voice pipes up from the back seat.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
  • If only a pie could pipe up and announce when it’s done, right?
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2025
  • When the crowd got a chance to ask questions, a rancher piped up.
    — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Wait, one of the kids pipes up, ready for the tournament or to die?
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2024
  • John will probably have to be the one to pipe up and say that [laughs].
    — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2021
  • And then the gargoyle piped up and said something ridiculous.
    — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • The water is piped up to the data center for liquid cooling of the servers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Mar. 2026
  • So why does this inner voice choose to pipe up on some occasions and remain mute on others?
    — Cassandra Willyard, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
  • Zen pipes up that his yakuza captors asked him if there were any phrases his mom regularly used.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Our wavy-haired editors piped up to share their go-to mousses and what exactly won them over.
    — Annie Blackman, Allure, 31 May 2025
  • In the future, if Alex — or anyone else — steals an idea from you, pipe up in the meeting and take it back.
    — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
  • Everyone is talking and Kamilla is trying to pipe up and even has to raise her hand to get heard.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 22 May 2025
  • With the congress over, some voices in the public health sector finally piped up.
    — Dake Kang, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • But Surfside is paying off a $30 million bill to keep its pipes up and running.
    — Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2025
  • Garrett Tyrrell of Durango, sitting to her right, piped up.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Michael Fagan, 31, scaled the walls around the palace and climbed a drain-pipe up to the monarch's private apartments.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Whether more Republicans pipe up could depend on what Santos does next.
    — Emily Brooks, The Hill, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Pushing for change With the congress over, some voices in the public health sector finally piped up.
    — Dake Kang, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Once players were split into offense and defense on separate sides of the field, the new coach piped up frequently with the offense.
    — Keith Pearson, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • His own producers agreed to fund a movie that feels very much his own, which is wonderful even given a few fumbles that could have used an outside voice piping up.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Before Schiraldi could respond, a second rep piped up in Richards’s defense.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 11 May 2026
  • But within 13 seconds of beginning her remarks, the first protester piped up.
    — NBC News, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Warren’s father did, however, pipe up at one crucial moment in his daughter’s life, when Betsy was in high school.
    — Michael Tomasky, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
  • So, say some small-time businessmen hire a truck through a dispatcher, the truck drives up to a field, and there, along the perimeter, a forklift crane pulls the pipe up from the sand.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • That day, Piaf’s secretary had already informed them that the meeting was canceled when the singer piped up in a weary voice from her bedroom and agreed to see them.
    — Alex Williams, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
  • As the MorphoScan measures and calculates, a voice will pipe up offering guidance and progress reports.
    — Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 5 Apr. 2026
  • To my surprise, his wife piped up enthusiastically about Fred’s doctor.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2023
  • He was accused of hitting a man in the back of the head with a metal pipe inside the victim’s girlfriend’s home, then shoving the victim up against the wall and pushing the pipe up against his neck.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 15 June 2026
  • Every time a restaurant or other small business announces its closure, people pipe up on social media about what the business owner should have done to be successful.
    — Gregg Olsen, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026

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