TIP in a Sentence

Learn TIP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

133 example sentences for TIP, such as:

1. But this is just the tip of an iceberg.
2. He tipped the table over in front of him.
3. He tipped the contents of the bag onto the table.
4. The senator has been widely tipped as a future president.
5. She leaned forward, holding the tip of her cigarette to his.

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 Meanings and Examples of TIP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tip
 n.  piece or attachment; end of a pointed or projecting object; a V shape ; indication of potential opportunity
Classic Sentence: (88 in 6 pages)
1  He pushed it gently with the tip of his finger, lightly, with the furtive and uneasy gentleness of a cat which is desirous of entering.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
2  The top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip is Hougomont, where Reille is stationed with Jerome Bonaparte; the right tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—A
3  Behind the tip of the A, behind the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, is the forest of Soignes.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—A
4  Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is three feet.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
5  Joly had a trick of touching his nose with the tip of his cane, which is an indication of a sagacious mind.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
6  The hem of your gown, when the tip of your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—FULL LIGHT
7  He came to her, fell at her knees, and slowly prostrating himself, he took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and kissed it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTE...
8  Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
9  The discharge had been so violent and so dense that it had cut the staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I—THE FLAG: ACT FIRST
10  Felton offered the weapon to Milady, who examined the temper of it attentively, and who tried the point on the tip of her finger.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
11  He had not even touched the tip of her fingers or looked her full in the eyes.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
12  She drew closer under the bearskin, so that, looking sideways around his coat-sleeve, he could just catch the tip of her nose and a blown brown wave of hair.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
13  She leaned forward, holding the tip of her cigarette to his.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
14  Her footsteps flagged, and she stood gazing listlessly ahead, digging the ferny edge of the path with the tip of her sunshade.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
15  They're not so much interested in me as they would be in a waiter, because they don't have to tip me.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (45 in 4 pages)
16  A tip that you may want to heed is to identify a product that buyers will need on a regular basis.
17  To me, a tip is a way of saying - you provided me with a service, thanks for a job well done
18  A park at the southern tip of Manhattan Island at the upper end of New York Bay in southeast New York. It is the site of early Dutch and English fortifications and of Castle Clinton, built in1808 for the defense of the harbor.
19  But this is just the tip of an iceberg.
20  The explosion did not cause any casualties, but it was under the tip of our noses in a Shell residential compound.
21  Los Cabos is on the tip of the state of Baja California Sur - an arid and cactus-filled land, yet fertile due to its peninsular body surrounded by the Sea of Cortez and the Pacific Ocean.
22  The eclipse will cast its 95-mile wide shadow starting at dawn in Australia's Northern Territory, then cross the north-east tip of the country before swooping east across the South Pacific.
23  Pro tip for thieves: If you're going to steal an iPhone, make sure it doesn't belong to a famed New York Times tech columnist.
24  He tipped the contents of the bag onto the table.
25  All the pictures in the book were tipped in carelessly and are beginning to come loose.
26  He had been widely tipped to get the new post of deputy director.
27  He tipped the table over in front of him.
28  The senator has been widely tipped as a future president.
29  He was widely tipped to succeed William Hague as leader of the party.
30  She has been tipped as a future member of the Welsh Assembly.