How to Use lipped in a Sentence

lipped

adjective
  • The city is keeping tight-lipped about the project for now.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2022
  • On the walls and in the eaves are new nests—open-lipped bulbs of mud drying in the sun.
    Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The world of celebrity beauty used to be more tight-lipped.
    Rachel Nussbaum, PEOPLE.com, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Well, not all things, but tight-lipped about some of the things that I was being told.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • So far, Blue Origin has been tight-lipped as to the price of a ticket.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • What’s the point of the court being so tight-lipped about its decisions?
    Stefanie Lindquist, The Conversation, 23 June 2022
  • At the airport, the gate agents were tight-lipped about the situation.
    Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Gomez, who's been tight-lipped about the show, raved to Variety about her co-stars.
    Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 29 July 2021
  • Cupp was tight-lipped about any of these key issues, saying the process still has to play out.
    Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The lipped tabletop design keeps knick-knacks in place.
    Sanah Faroke, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Chuang and the others pressed for case details, but the doctors were tight-lipped.
    Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Those involved were tight-lipped about the actual contents of the show.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Or has someone already seized the job and the staff is keeping things close-lipped?
    Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Of course, Krasinski has been tight-lipped on this as well.
    Justine Browning, EW.com, 27 July 2022
  • The company has been tight-lipped about the outage's cause.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2020
  • While Amazon is known to be tight-lipped about its plans, the news shouldn’t have come as a surprise.
    Charley Grant, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The writers are understandably tight-lipped about the plot.
    CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
  • In the final shot, Murray gives the camera a close-lipped grin that would make the Joker and the Cheshire Cat demur.
    Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The Sheriff's Office was tight-lipped about may have led up to the shootings over the weekend.
    Sara Pagones | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • As to what the project was, however, both remained tight-lipped.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Or, stack round, lipped trays with small bowls between to create tiers.
    WSJ, 16 Dec. 2022
  • His response marked the third time this week a Dolphins coach was tight-lipped about Jackson’s role.
    David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 23 Nov. 2022
  • That's just how IU Athletics has handled things in the past: tight-lipped.
    Matthew Glenesk, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Democrats have been tight-lipped about their strategy for next week.
    Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2020
  • But she's remained tight-lipped on who the designer is.
    Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Oct. 2019
  • With a Western culture of tight-lipped endurance, some just don’t want to broach the subject.
    Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2020
  • And while the group is tight-lipped about what to expect exactly, BoA already has some ideas.
    Nolan Feeney, Billboard, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The taut-lipped McConnell endures, the dour face of D.C. dysfunction.
    Steve Bousquet, sun-sentinel.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Ohio State is tight-lipped on injuries under coach Ryan Day.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Finkelstein hopes to attempt his next record with his girlfriend, but is remaining tight lipped about the concept.
    Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 10 Jan. 2023

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