How to Use lipped in a Sentence
lipped
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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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