Use lip in a sentence
Sentences starting with lip
- Lip won't do here. [5]
Sentences ending with lip
- The Widow smiled with a feeling of triumph at having overcome her difficulties and arranged her party,--arose and stood before her glass, three-quarters front, one-quarter profile, so as to show the whites of the eyes and the down of the upper lip. [6]
- People allowed themselves to take strange liberties with Caesar in this town, Theocritus burst out; insolent jests passed from lip to lip. [10]
- The ends of the collar were apart the width of the red clipped beard, and the mustache was cropped straight along the line of the upper lip. [9]
- There was more than power; malice drew down the brows and curled the sensitive upper lip. [11]
- At any rate, something resembling it had lodged among the hairs sprouting from her upper lip. [5]
- He shrugged a shoulder and a sardonic curl came to his lip. [11]
- A deep, fiery-red scar, given by the sword of a Massagetan warrior, crossed his high forehead, arched nose and thin upper lip. [10]
- There was some satisfaction in seeing Miss Thorn biting her lip. [9]
- Helen Darley knew nothing of it all until she hard risen, when the gossipy matron of the establishment made her acquainted with all its details, embellished with such additional ornamental appendages as it had caught up in transmission from lip to lip. [6]
- He struck the nativity of the Mediterranean Madeira before it had fairly moistened his lip. [6]
Short sentences using lip
- Grafton bit his lip. [9]
- Cynthia bit her lip. [9]
- Virginia Hayden bit her lip. [9]
- Patty's lip quivered. [9]
- His lip trembled. [11]
Sentences containing lip two or more times
- Thus it was that Kaid looked out on a vast multitude of Muslims, in which not one European face showed, and from lip to lip there passed the word, "Harrik--Harrik--remember Harrik! [11]
- The little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. [2]
- They passed from lip to lip, from hundreds to hundreds and, though those more distant did not know the cause, they joined in the shouts. [10]
- Yet the daughter has guessed aright, and I have kept the 'Honourables' waiting, that I might tell you the news myself; for what may not such tidings become whilst passing from lip to lip! [10]
- The alarm swept from lip to lip, from group to group, from street to street, and within five minutes the bells were wildly clanging and the whole town was up! [5]
More example sentences with the word lip in them
- See, we strain you to our bosoms, And we kiss your lip and brow; Human hearts must have some idols, And we shrine you idols now. [11]
- The Mayor's polite words had caused the long, clean-shaven upper lip of the old man with the look of a debauched prophet, to lengthen surlily; and he noticed that a wide, flat foot in a big knee-boot, inside trousers too short, tapped the ground impatiently. [11]
- And if the wine to lip she raise, With morsel of my bread; Then as we loved in ancient days, These lands of ours shall wed. [11]
- Amazement and suspense were painted on every face, not a hand, not a lip moved as Theophilus rose again and cast a glance of proud and stern defiance round the assembly, which each man took to himself. [10]
- His smoothly shaven upper lip and brown whiskers, his erect bearing and energetic manner, reminded one of an English parliamentary leader, but his words sounded almost menacing. [10]
- Blood was dripping upon his beard from a cut on his lip, and from there to the ground. [11]
- Not a lip trembled nor an eye faltered when a backwoodsman, his memory aflame at sight of the pitiful white scalps on their belts, thrust through the crowd to curse them. [9]
- The Emperor began to breathe heavily and rapidly, his lower lip trembled, and tears instantly appeared in his fine blue eyes. [2]
- On the whole, the situation delighted Honora, who bit her lip to refrain from smiling at M. de Toqueville. [9]
- Charles angrily exclaimed that he knew what such illness meant, and his under lip protruded so far that it was easy to perceive how deeply this fresh proof of Barbara's defiance and vanity incensed him. [10]
- Her cheeks had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. [2]
- For answer, Clarence struck the paper out of my hand, pursed up a scornful lip and said with lofty disdain: "Dismember me this animal, and return him in a basket to the base-born knave who sent him; other answer have I none! [5]
- Barbara knew the sovereign, and when she saw him thrust his lower lip slightly forward she was sure that something vexed him. [10]
- Her face had shriveled, her upper lip had sunk in, and her eyes were dim. [2]
- How her eyes shone and her lip trembled as she gazed at him, Stephen has never forgotten. [9]
- But Miss Manners sat very still, biting her lip, and I knew she was sadly vexed that you had not gone to her in Arlington Street. [9]
- He had scant, sandy-grey whiskers, a tightly closed and smooth-shaven upper lip, a nose with-a decided ridge, and rather small but penetrating eyes in which the blue pigment had been used sparingly. [9]
- The face was repulsive in its combination of surly smugness, as shown by the long upper lip, by a repellent darkness round the small, furtive eyes, by a hardness in the huge, bearded jaw, and by a mouth of primary animalism. [11]
- Most of the reckless, defiantly bold faces were smooth-shaven, with only a mustache on the upper lip, and sometimes a short imperial. [10]
- I imagined her plunged down a precipice of lava, or pitched over the lip of the crater, and only rescued by the devotion of a gallant guide, who threatened to let go of her if she didn't pay him twenty francs instantly. [4]
- The two younger ones were embroidering: both were rosy and pretty and they differed only in that one had a little mole on her lip which made her much prettier. [2]
- Honora was trembling on the brink of a discovery: holding herself back from it, as one who has climbed a fair mountain recoils from the lip of an unsuspected crater at sight of the lazy, sulphurous fumes. [9]
- For the sake of those eyes you forgot all else; all that was rough in her, and her wide nose with the deep dent just in the middle, and such hair on her lip as many a young stripling might envy her. [10]
- The slight arch of the nose, the lofty brow, the light down on the upper lip, and the deep voice even gave her a somewhat imperious aspect. [10]
- Still she did not speak, but her lip trembled, and the love leaping in his eyes kindled a yearning in hers,--a yearning she was powerless to resist. [9]
- Lord Faramond did not know, but fetched out his lower lip knowingly. [11]
- His thick, dark moustache was chopped off square at the lower edge of the upper lip, which implied a decisive, if not a peremptory, style of character. [6]
- He had his mother's under lip and complexion. [9]
- There was no mistaking the quiver of her upper lip--a short lip which did not hide a wonderfully pretty set of teeth. [11]
- You might spare me and yourself that scornful curl of the lip. [10]
- There is a magic in fame which the young soul cannot easily escape, and the name of Heinz Schorlin was indeed honoured and on every lip. [10]
- Better an hour's mad revel, E'en a kiss from a Moenad's lip, Than a year of timid doubting, Daring only to taste and sip, were the closing lines of a song which I composed at this time. [10]
- As the Khedive looked, his lip curled a little, for he recalled what Dicky Donovan had said about it; how he had pleaded against it, describing loathsome wounds and pilgrims done to death. [11]
- Soon, however, his lofty brow clouded again, and his lower lip protruded. [10]
- Cynthia bit her lip, not seeing any cause for mirth in her remark, while Ephraim looked uncomfortable and mopped the perspiration from his brow. [9]
- Austen bit his lip, and then laughed outright,--the canonization of old Tom Gaylord being too much for him. [9]
- The angel's upper lip was slightly raised as though about to smile, and once on coming out of the chapel Prince Andrew and Princess Mary admitted to one another that the angel's face reminded them strangely of the little princess. [2]
- Many a bearded lip was pressed to the hem of his robe, to his feet, and to the sleek skin of the noble Libyan steed which, pressing forward with arching neck only to be curbed by its rider's strength, bore him through the ranks. [10]
- The short upper lip was arrested in a sort of snarl, the fingers, half-closed, were hooked like talons, and the whole man was a picture of surprise, fury, and injured pride. [11]
- And so his lip quivered as he sang:-- "Petit Rocher de la Haute Montagne, Je vien finir ici cette campagne! [9]
- The loose lower lip of the Master of Tralee quivered. [11]
- Caesar bit his lip in powerless fury, and his hatred of the towns-people, who had thus so plainly given him to understand their sentiments, was rising from one minute to the next. [10]
- Why suffer that lip I have kissed a thousand times to equivocate? [5]
- His thick lower lip crept over in front of the upper one, A gleam stirred in the deep-set gray eyes. [9]
- A strange, eager light sparkled in this man's clever eyes, and a subtle smile hovered around his moustached lip, as he called to the musician: "What has happened here, Meister Wilhelm? [10]
- There was a laugh at this at first, and then a short silence, and I noticed that her lip trembled, and the old gentleman opposite was in trouble to get at his bandanna handkerchief --"What was the use in waiting? [6]
- As for the lady, she curled her lip. [9]
- And now, may I beg that for the rest of your natural life"--here she paused, and bit her lip in vexation that the unlucky phrase had escaped her--"you will speak of this no more? [11]
- Then, pursing up his lower lip, and with a growing amazement which carried him to distant heights of reckless language, he said again: "By the head of John the Baptist on a charger! [11]
- All agree that his lip trembled; some say his eyes watered: at any rate, he quailed, stood a moment undecided, and then swung on his heel and walked to the partition door. [9]
- The stranger wrapped himself in the Athenian's chiton and mantle, placed the golden circlet above his brow, caused the hair to be shaved from his upper lip, and ordered me to follow him into the garden. [10]
- She looked at him, and her lip quivered. [9]
- She smiled at him again, her lip trembling. [9]
- Where would he hide himself when the dwarf with seven fingers on each hand, no upper lip, and his under-jaw gone, came down in his majesty? [5]
- And Dolly bit her lip, and did not join in that part of the merriment. [9]
- But she bit her lip "He is like all Yankees, without one bit of consideration for a woman. [9]
- But at last he heaved a sigh, shook his head slowly, and said, with a trembling lip and in a despondent voice-- "I call the scene back--all of it--but the Seal hath no place in it. [5]
- In his lap he cuddled a miniature greyhound that snarled, lifting its lip and showing its white teeth whenever any slight movement disturbed it. [5]
- His under lip hangs down like a camel's, and his ears are chopped off close to his head. [5]
- I thought Titian hair was bronzy-tawny was what Mr. Burlingame called it when he was spouting," --her upper lip curled in contempt. [11]
- The little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her eyes and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as merrily and prettily as ever. [2]
- That thing which had been growing up in every heart was ready to leap from every lip at last! [5]
- And her face grew white, too, and her lip trembled. [5]
- The conversation was general and animated, thanks to Princess Lise's voice and little downy lip that lifted over her white teeth. [2]
- There is no galvanism in kiss-your-brother; it is copper against copper: but alien bloods develop strange currents, when they flow close to each other, with only the films that cover lip and cheek between them. [6]
- He found it full, but seated in the red-plush chair, tipped back at a convenient angle, was Mazarine undergoing the triple operations of shaving his upper lip, beard-trimming and haircutting. [11]
- The heavy chin, framed by a thin, closely clipped beard, had sunk upon the high ruff as if for support, and the thick, loosely hanging lower lip appeared to have lost its elasticity. [10]
- But seeing her fixed gaze into the empty air, and the set pout of her nether lip, I could not doubt that she would never speak the word that would bid him home. [10]
- Stereotyped on Eda's face during the legitimately tender passages of these dramas was an expression of rapture, a smile made peculiarly infatuate by that vertical line in her cheeks, that inadequacy of lip and preponderance of white teeth and red gums. [9]
- His large blue eyes were somewhat prominent; and his rather narrow face was drawn forward in a nose a little too long perhaps, if it had not been for the full chin deeply cut below the lip, and jutting firmly forward. [8]
- Well I remembered every turn of her head, and every curve of her lip! [9]
- On the very edge of that, on the lip of it, where the smoke rose, I also saw human shapes; and it seemed as if they stood on the brink of Tartarus and in momently imminent peril. [4]
- Els, too, greatly disliked "the Mustache," as her future brother-in-law was called because the huge ornament on his upper lip made him conspicuous among the beardless knights. [10]
- A scornful smile curled her lip. [10]
- Beautiful, wise, and convincing sentences from the Bible went from lip to lip; and a saying of Clemens, whose immense learning was well known, was especially effective and popular. [10]
- And after Antoine came Gabriel, a marked contrast--Gabriel, five feet six, and the glare showing but a faint dark line on his quivering lip. [9]
- Edward was dazed by the shock, his lower lip quivered and fell. [9]
- His face had been tanned in many wars, both in the East and West, and he had fought even in distant Caledonia, but the low forehead, loose under lip, and dull eye spoke of small gifts of intellect. [10]
- He had grown, become rosier, had curly dark hair, and, when merry and laughing, quite unconsciously lifted the upper lip of his pretty little mouth just as the little princess used to do. [2]
- Camels are not beautiful, and their long under lip gives them an exceedingly "gallus"--[Excuse the slang, no other word will describe it]--expression. [5]
- By four the back of the head was good, the military cap was pretty good, the nose was bold and strong, the upper lip sharp, but not pretty, and there was a great goatee that shot straight aggressively forward from the chin. [5]
- From every lip, as but one voice, rose a cry of admiration, amazement, and delight, for Serapis stood revealed to his people. [10]
- With laughing lip and with jocund mind at break of day. [11]
- Then she straightened, and only the quiver of her lip marked the effort. [9]
- Dark hairs were already showing on his upper lip, and his whole face expressed impetuosity and enthusiasm. [2]
- As Valmond looked, a soft light passed across his face, relieving its theatrical firmness, the half-contemptuous curl of his lip. [11]
- His lip curled a little with almost playful scorn. [11]
- Her head gave a little modest toss, her fine white teeth caught her lower lip with a little quirk of humour; for she could see that he was a gentleman, and that she was safe from anything that might trouble her. [11]
- He now made a handle of my nose, to assist him shaving the corners of my upper lip, and it was by this bit of circumstantial evidence that I discovered that a part of his duties in the shop was to clean the kerosene-lamps. [5]
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