How to Use pipe up in a Sentence

pipe up

verb

• John will probably have to be the one to pipe up and say that.
  — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 20 Apr. 2021
• John will probably have to be the one to pipe up and say that [laughs].
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2021
• And then the gargoyle piped up and said something ridiculous.
  — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• Someone would have to pipe up and say: But what about human culture?
  — Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• 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
• With the congress over, some voices in the public health sector finally piped up.
  — Dake Kang, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• Pushing for change With the congress over, some voices in the public health sector finally piped up.
  — Dake Kang, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• And sitting in the backseat of the family car after school pick-up on a warm spring day, her 9-year-old piped up during an interview with the Detroit Free Press.
  — Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2024
• But within 13 seconds of beginning her remarks, the first protester piped up.
  — NBC News, 4 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Eventually, a few people piped up, and DeSantis responded with a mélange of bummers.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• To my surprise, his wife piped up enthusiastically about Fred’s doctor.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024