How to Use pipe up in a Sentence
pipe up
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John will probably have to be the one to pipe up and say that.
—Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 20 Apr. 2021
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John will probably have to be the one to pipe up and say that [laughs].
—Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2021
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And then the gargoyle piped up and said something ridiculous.
—Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 3 May 2023
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So why does this inner voice choose to pipe up on some occasions and remain mute on others?
—Cassandra Willyard, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2015
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With the congress over, some voices in the public health sector finally piped up.
—Dake Kang, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
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Pushing for change With the congress over, some voices in the public health sector finally piped up.
—Dake Kang, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
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Once players were split into offense and defense on separate sides of the field, the new coach piped up frequently with the offense.
—Keith Pearson, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
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Then, this week, a 22-year-old named Emma on TikTok piped up with the fix: Stop prioritizing your career.
—David Oliver, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
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Now, as open-pay laws ripple across the country, younger workers pipe up on TikTok, and employee groups crowdsource salary data, many people are learning how their pay stacks up.
—Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
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Eventually, a few people piped up, and DeSantis responded with a mélange of bummers.
—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
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Unsurprisingly, Ripple’s heavyweight lawyer Stu Alderoty was quick to pipe up on Twitter, pointing out that the new case was at a preliminary stage and without a full body of evidence.
—Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 1 Aug. 2023
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Even advocates of such a revolution pipe up these days mainly out of a seeming need to express despair and disdain for fellow Americans who place a higher value on their right to own guns.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 17 May 2022
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To my surprise, his wife piped up enthusiastically about Fred’s doctor.
—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2023
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Other teams collaborated on video conference etiquette, coming up with a manual of hand gestures and other protocols that could be used to signal when someone wants to pipe up in a meeting or needs to leave early.
—Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2020
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American and European antitrust regulators are also piping up, Bloomberg reports, worried about the prospect of a massive for-profit entity forming in a sport that already lacks competition at a business level.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 7 June 2023
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