How to Use piper in a Sentence

piper

noun

• The time had arrived for the Colorado Avalanche and its coach to pay the piper.
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 23 May 2022
• No one likes to pay the piper (in this case, Uncle Sam).
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• The Queen’s piper will bring the service to a close at midday.
  — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 15 Sep. 2022
• But somebody must pay the piper and this will have to be the black hole itself.
  — Christoph Adami, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2018
• It’s time to pay the piper and pay tax on the distributions.
  — Nathan Bachrach and Amy Wagner, Cincinnati.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• When the mayor refuses to pay up, the piper does the same to the town's children.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 21 July 2022
• The late Queen's piper also played as the hearse was prepared for the journey south.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2022
• It’s always been true that in show business, the piper must be paid.
  — Bob Verini, Variety, 15 Sep. 2022
• In a society governed by the rule of law, there is a piper to be paid.
  — Norman Eisen and Dennis Aftergut, CNN, 22 July 2022
• All along, the pied piper of the Ukraine narrative was Giuliani.
  — Simon Shuster/kiev, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
• Sara Szabo directs the dancers, and Bentley Wall is the piper.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 10 Mar. 2020
• And not just the piper, but everyone involved in the making of a show.
  — Bob Verini, Variety, 15 Sep. 2022
• On the day of the queen’s state funeral in September, a lone piper played a lament on the deck.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• There’s a piper to the sovereign and a grand carver and a royal clock winder.
  — William Booth, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
• The piper even knows his neighbors farther afield now, too.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 7 July 2020
• On Covid lockdown policies that kept children out of school, the time to pay the piper has arrived.
  — Pradheep J. Shanker, National Review, 28 Oct. 2022
• The crowd stood when Gee’s family entered, led by a bag piper.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2021
• The two-minute silence across the U.K. marked the end of the service, along with a reveille, the national anthem, and a royal piper playing a lament.
  — Time, 19 Sep. 2022
• Imeem has a few options in its quest to bring in enough revenue to pay the proverbial — and literal — piper.
  — Eliot Van Buskirk, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2009
• If the weather is inclement, one piper will perform indoors for a short while.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 6 Mar. 2021
• In a common telling of the story, the piper offers to solve the problem in exchange for payment; Hamelin's mayor agrees.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 21 July 2022
• As revenge, the piper played his music and bewitched all the town’s children to follow him out of the city where they were never seen again.
  — Morgan Jerkins, Teen Vogue, 9 Jan. 2019
• The Hungarian half-piper turned the sport on its head by attempting no tricks.
  — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Feb. 2018
• Pay the piper The retail shortages have been reflected in a sharp price markup on Switch sales from secondhand sources.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2020
• Bagpipes will begin to play from a doorway and gradually fade as the piper walks away.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
• The Cowboys, meanwhile, pay the piper this season for signing Prescott to his similar deal with a cap hit of $49 million.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2023
• Her personal piper will also play a lament in her honor.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2022
• Toward the end of the hourlong service, the last post bugle call sounded before a lament played by the queen’s piper brought the ceremony to a grand close.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2022
• Dennis Vincent, stood a few feet from the Boston Massacre seal and filmed the piper on a recent Wednesday afternoon.
  — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• Queen Elizabeth's personal piper will also play a lament in her honor.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024