How to Use tip up in a Sentence

tip up

verb
  • Next, place the latest-blooming bulbs on top of the soil with the pointy tips up.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The ball was tipped up and intercepted.
    — Ted Nguyen, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • And the rear seats can be folded down to extend the cargo space, or tipped up to accommodate taller items.
    — New Atlas, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Despite the sluggish market, career experts have tips up their sleeves on landing a job interview in 24 hours.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • North Crowley was driving, but a pass over the middle was tipped up, and Keller’s Carson Sims came down with it in the end zone.
    — Jordan Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Nov. 2025
  • The bill provides no tax on tips up to $25,000 on federal income tax from this year until 2028.
    — David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The budget bill, however, scraps taxes on tips up to $25,000 a year and over time up to $12,500.
    — Paul Davidson, USA Today, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Yet oil prices tipped up again Thursday, a sign traders are still skeptical that the strait will reopen for the free transit of more tankers anytime soon, especially as insurers and shipowners remain concerned that security conditions could collapse at any moment.
    — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 9 Apr. 2026

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