How to Use hip to in a Sentence

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  • Pot sellers love to use code words that the fuzz isn’t hip to.
    Sarah Hutto, The New Yorker, 17 May 2022
  • Soho House was hip to this shift more than two decades ago.
    Hannah Coates, Vogue, 13 May 2022
  • Points are counted when the area from an opponent's hip to the top of their head is struck.
    Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2021
  • The pair Dua rocked is roomy from the hip to the ankle, in the same way that one of '90s fashion's most memorable pieces of clothing were.
    Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 7 Oct. 2022
  • This was a franchise, after all, that was hip to toxic fandom way, way ahead of the curve.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
  • My whole life’s work has been in Chicago and this is a school that is linked at the hip to our great, vibrant, artistic city.
    Doug George, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2023
  • Even the cheetahs, the leopard and bobcats are trained to put forward their shoulder or a hip to get a shot.
    Washington Post, 28 May 2021
  • Other parts of the country are also hip to Vincent wines.
    Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2022
  • One of the primary muscles used is the gluteus medius, a muscle that lifts your leg to the side and rotates your hip to the outside.
    Greg Presto, Men's Health, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Trousers taper neatly from hip to hem: neither too tight nor too roomy.
    Aleks Cvetkovic, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2023
  • That would give him an extra day off to allow the soreness in his right hip to dissipate.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • That just shows how many people were fighting against this form of slavery once people got hip to it.
    Veronica Wells, Essence, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Then, drop down slightly and pivot on back foot and hip to drive back fist straight up to perform a rear uppercut.
    Mallory Creveling, Health.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Beer lovers are already hip to Cincy Beerfest, which boasts hundreds of craft beers from more than 120 breweries.
    Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 11 May 2021
  • And beauty brands are clearly hip to those vibes, because this month's launches seem to be all about getting out there and giving your skin lots of love.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 15 Mar. 2022
  • That tense encounter ends with the cop pulling a trick that could have had deadly consequences; but, Harry is hip to it and saves both himself and the handyman from a bullet.
    Washington Post, 2 May 2022
  • We're still glued together, hip to hip, holding each other up, not covering as much of the floor, but owning & loving the space that's ours.
    Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023
  • Researchers take a sample from Iceman’s hip to begin the sequencing process.
    Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2013
  • But now that most viewers are hip to these product placements, the marketers and networks have stepped it up a notch to reclaim our attention again.
    Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2010
  • Patel taught the choreography to one of the dancers in their piece, pointing out a flexed foot and the shifting of weight from one side of the hip to the other, which gave shape to their goddess character in the piece.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
  • Being hip to a good barbecue joint -- especially those that are small, quirky and/or obscure – is as cool as knowing the best dive bars.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 6 June 2023
  • Mixtapes were always a certain segment of hip-hop that were kind of hip to the new s–t, or came from a certain demographic of hip-hop, and now… The crate-digging kind of people.
    Eric Diep, Billboard, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Canned seafood is such a spectacular flavor-bomb that Americans just haven’t gotten hip to.
    Laura Manske, Forbes, 12 June 2022
  • Besides that, the jeans almost don't exist; the seams running down the sides do nothing more than hold the unraveled strings of fabric, which surround Smith's legs from hip to ankle, together.
    Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Trailing late against Bayramov, O’Toole went to an ambitious and impressive slip to his opposite hip to get to a cradle and win by fall at 4 minutes, 52 seconds.
    Curt Hogg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2021
  • And the inside seatbelt anchor is too far forward of the hip to provide any useful longitudinal restraint.
    David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 16 May 2023
  • Above-the-knee amputees can go for a prosthesis with a bionic knee joint that allows for a more familiar up-and-down running action, or one that creates a straight leg from hip to blade and requires a roundhouse stride.
    Tim Heming, Outside Online, 10 Sep. 2021
  • For example, the little spoon could hook their leg around their partner’s to increase stability, or the big spoon could move their leg up around their partner’s hip to change the angle of penetration.
    Erika W. Smith, refinery29.com, 25 May 2022
  • The Breen office was hip to the scam Hollywood always played in the gangster pictures — revel for 85 minutes in the gunplay, fast cars, cool clothes, and slinky molls before exacting a crime-does-not-pay penalty in the last five minutes.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
  • Continue, feeling the natural stopping point, aka the end of your hip range of motion, and then rotate back in the other direction, using the muscles in your hip to steer the movement rather than just turning your foot.
    Erin Taylor, Outside Online, 18 June 2020

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