How to Use lip service in a Sentence

lip service

noun

• So far all we've gotten from him is lip service.
• She paid lip service to blue-collar workers, but she did nothing to help them.
• The last five years have taught me that most people are happy with lip service.
  — Jason Johnson, The Root, 11 Oct. 2017
• Its all lip service, betting Hue is fired the day after his last game.
  — Nathaniel Cline, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• For years, even the best Texas barbecue joints only paid lip service to sides.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• But some of the progressive schools pay only lip service to the state’s curriculum.
  — The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
• The series takes aim at the hypocrisy of corporations that pay lip service to going green but will jump into bed with oil if enough money is on the line.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
• Meanwhile, Fatah and Hamas continued to denounce each other while paying lip service to the goal of unity.
  — Wendy Pearlman, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2017
• While most celebrity #squads amount to little more than lip service, the genuine display of respect between two of the world’s biggest performers was refreshing.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2017
• As Blank says, the owners are going to have to be serious about helping players with these causes if the players are going to trust that isn’t lip service from the owners.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• Surely, an enormous tragedy is being written making Oedipus tragedy one of immaterial lip service.
  — Dr. Robert G. Rabil, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2024
• The tragedy in Las Vegas broke my heart, but any talk of banning or regulating bump stocks is merely cheap political lip service from career politicians.
  — Maegan Vazquez, CNN, 17 Oct. 2017
• Otherwise, his Women's Health Week statement is more lip service based on ideology instead of data.
  — Seventeen, 15 May 2017
• The rhetoric spewed by both sides, the continuous bombardment of incorrect information and the lip service from lawmakers who know nothing of the subject isn't helpful.
  — Steve Meyer, Alaska Dispatch News, 18 Oct. 2017
• And that’s why the American people are sick of the lip service and the hypocrisy.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 27 June 2018
• The city pledged to hire on the Freedom House paramedics, says Moon, but that proved to be lip service.
  — Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• This is why the American people are sick of the lip service and the hypocrisy.
  — Jen Kirby, Vox, 26 June 2018
• For starters, the frigid, fractured state of the core Avengers team only gets lip service.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2018
• But the companies say the goals are much more than lip service.
  — Fortune, 22 June 2021
• This isn't about paying lip service or adding a few glitzy words to the website.
  — Sahar Andrade, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• The white dinner jackets are at the pump, trying to fill the tank at the lip service station.
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2022
• The union is doing much more than paying lip service to ethics.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2022
• So, when answering the calls to open your purse, rather than just give lip service to a cause, how wide to crack it?
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 4 June 2020
• When women began to rise up, a lot of men began to give lip service to it.
  — Rebecca Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
• The great powers paid lip service to their right to return but did little to help bring it about.
  — Nathan Thrall, Time, 14 May 2018
• For his part, Biden paid lip service to the two-state solution but didn’t seem to believe in it.
  — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Joe Biden has, from time to time, paid lip service to caring about not increasing the deficit.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2021
• Talk of values in such firms is often no more than lip service.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• But the former employees alleged in the letter that some of the stunts were just lip service.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 10 June 2021
• Not just the absurd lip service usually paid by politicians in the wake of these tragedies.
  — Megan Friedman, Good Housekeeping, 16 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024