How To Use Tipped In A Sentence
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Paraguay tea, which they call matte, as I mentioned before, is always drunk twice a day: this is brought upon a large silver salver, with four legs raised upon it, to receive a little cup made out of a small calabash or gourd, and tipped with silver.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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The jar tipped over, and hundreds of wooden clacks could be heard as the pencils littered the ground.
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The track, released on Monday, is tipped to be a massive Christmas hit.
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Morrissey and the Duranies are back in the charts; the 20th anniversary edition of Purple Rain was released last week; and Band Aid are already being tipped as a dead cert for the Christmas number one spot.
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There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons.
CHAPTER VIII
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My favorite load for turkeys is Beman ICS Hunter arrows fletched with Bonning Blazer vanes and tipped with Vortex Pro-Series 100 grain 2.25 broadheads.
Which load do you use for turkey
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Check out the pincushion hakea with its pointy-tipped nuts like fairy bells; the teak pods that open up like wooden flowers, and the large woody pears with slightly furry grey skin that's very soft to the touch.
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Every behatted head is tipped just so.
Times, Sunday Times
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She didn't feel that way and tipped her gazpacho soup into my lap before leaving.
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Deputy Premier Phan Van Khai, a key mover of the economic reforms, is tipped as the next PM.
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Each day, in visibility of over 30 metres, we encounter black and white-tipped reef and grey sharks, large pelagics like dogtoothed tuna and many of the four hundred other species of fish which inhabit these waters.
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What tipped the balance against that was my continuing dreadful performance in the classroom.
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The countryside had been scorched; the acacia hedges were tipped with orange.
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Suddenly the bus ahead of us skidded off the road and tipped over on its side in a rice field.
Christianity Today
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The front room was tipped upside down.
The Sun
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Someone tipped off the press that he was havering.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nectar feeding species are small and have long muzzles and extremely long tongues tipped with a brush-like structure.
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When I tipped my head back, I saw the hawk buckle its wings and plummet behind the trees.
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The branchia is translucent white with brown spots and white-tipped brown pinnules.
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What tipped the scale in Thorpe's favor were his sterling performances in major international meets.
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The case here was endimic at the place throughout the 90s, at least, as were other outrages and abuses (I know about this … managers who couldn’t care less let underage stockers tool around in forklifts that they have no training, and one I know of even tipped the forklift over going around a corner too fast).
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But his weapon carried special cartridges filled with birdshot rather than soft-tipped lead bullets.
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I smoke filter - tipped cigarettes in order not to waste pipe tobacco.
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He thereby lends some countenance to Saintsbury's later mantra that what passes for English dactylics are in fact ‘tipped-up’ hypermetric anapests.
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The men carry short swords in blunt-tipped scabbards slung around their necks, wear their hair in topknots and sport complicated, swirling facial tattoos.
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The senator has been widely tipped as a future president.
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Now you tipped Villa to go down last season and they finished sixth - who's your tip for relegation next year?
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In some chitons, the radula has teeth tipped with magnetite, which hardens them.
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The gang had been tipped off and now it was payback time for this offence.
Times, Sunday Times
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The young striker - once much-tipped in these parts - had an absolute mare before ending the game being stretchered off.
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Highly respected, he was tipped at one point to become lord chief justice.
Times, Sunday Times
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We live in a street off Soho Road and there's rubbish tipped everywhere.
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Whether the theory truly tipped non-violent musers into killers, or whether it merely gave a pretext to psychopaths, simpletons and romantics to commit murders, is unclear.
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The structure was grown using about 100,000 beads of the connective protein collagen, seeded with cells from a human liver cancer culture and tipped into a body-shaped mould.
Monday
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He strode boldly up the bank towards the mule driver and tipped his hat.
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‘Metal-tipped stiletto heels damaged floors and were often banned from public buildings’ says the text accompanying the display.
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More specifically, somebody tipped off the Evening Standard, which made a freedom of information request, got a little list of undeleted expletives and set the storm raging.
Row over MPs' expletives undeleted poses a question of standards
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Michael Caine, who is up for best supporting actor for his role in The Cider House Rules, has been tipped as a dead cert in a poll of Oscar voters by The Wall Street Journal.
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During the exam, your doctor may apply a cotton-tipped swab to the area to see if it is painful.
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Mrs Drummond waved well-formed fingers tipped with flawless ovals of strawberry pink enamel.
THE QUEST FOR K
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Any of several Eurasian plants of the genus Leonurus, especially L. cardiaca, a weed having clusters of small purple or pink flowers and spine-tipped calyx lobes.
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Rocky nodded and unceremoniously tipped out the contents of the box.
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When the jet reached Manchester Airport, the aircraft's wings were tipped in salute to its new home before circling and touching down.
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Scoop after scoop was scraped away, lifted, and tipped with an ear-splitting crash into a waiting dumper truck.
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Students were allowed to use graphite pencil or a very fine-tipped felt pen.
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Her endorsement tipped the balance in nomination contest after nomination contest.
Times, Sunday Times
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The amusement of the onlookers changed to gaping wonder when they saw him deliberately bore a hole in the bottom of the boat near the bow, after which, fixing up some kind of derrick, he tipped the boat so that the water she had taken in at the stern ran out in front, and she floated safely over the dam.
The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
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He was also kicked so hard his scooter almost tipped over.
The Sun
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He tipped the bottle up so that the last of the liquid flowed into his glass.
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A modern day rockabilly queen, May breathes new life into an old genre, and her use of a bodhran is a quirky touch that fits her highly percussive sound to a T. 's 24-year-old bright young thing Victoria Hesketh AKA Little Boots is being tipped by the
Expecting Rain
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They rather resemble high-rise apartment blocks tipped on their sides (all those balconies), with a hull bolted on to the underside.
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He had red tipped hair and three piercings in one ear.
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He tipped his breakfast cereal into a bowl.
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She picked up her hunter's bow and the quiver of poison tipped arrows, and slung them around her shoulder.
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PORTSMOUTH got a financial lifeline last week but they are still tipped for a second straight relegation.
The Sun
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An ambitious programme of events will include a showpiece £5m international arts festival, tipped to rival Edinburgh's in scope and quality.
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The farmer even has a halo formed by his tipped back sombrero, and the holiness of this revolutionary embrace is reinforced by its association with the embrace of Joachim and Anna in Giotto’s Arena Chapel in Padua.
Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera - The Murals
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Several others were shouting out to the police, complaining of how their grog gets confiscated and tipped away.
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Highly respected, he was tipped at one point to become lord chief justice.
Times, Sunday Times
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He told us that the native, when he wishes to catch one alive, goes forth with his blowpipe and arrows tipped with diluted woorali poison.
The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco
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These guys are luscious-haired, stubbly, torrid and tattooed, and often look as if they've tipped up with a hangover.
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One of them, a former Lilly sales rep named James Wetta, went on to work for AstraZeneca PLC and tipped off federal authorities about alleged off-label promotion of the antipsychotic Seroquel, resulting in Astra's $520 million settlement in April.
Whistleblower's Long Journey
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The rocker arms are roller tipped and ride on needle bearings mounted on individual stub shafts.
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Now the player once tipped for stardom admits he has been battling inner demons.
The Sun
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I sat down on the bed, and tipped out the contents of the little bag.
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If they applied extra thrust it could have tipped the plane out of control, tearing it apart in the turbulence.
Times, Sunday Times
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I called for small-beer, the master tipped the wink, and the servant brought me a brimmer of October.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
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Casually touching many cnidarians will make it clear how they got their name when their nematocysts eject barbed threads tipped with poison.
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They are the size of a starling with light brown plumage, red markings round the eyes, a crest and an orange-tipped black tail.
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Yesterday we were tipped off by a man in the village about a house that had already been searched.
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My mother was once in a charabanc that went under a railway bridge in Bedfordshire and then slowly tipped over and deposited them all into a ditch.
Chez Moi
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At one point Brendan's sled tipped over and he fell into the snow and no one bothered to help him up.
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Far better, though, they tipped off the police that the law was being flouted and the whole operation was busted.
Times, Sunday Times
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I pushed him into a chair and tipped his head back, pinching his nose to stop the bleeding.
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Soon, a pile of the creatures had accumulated and the bridge tipped over and she fell in, clinging the way Jackson had done, but there were too many of them.
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Omnipresence was only one of several attributes that tipped him over into the realm of the superhuman.
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The bowl was tipped over by the cat which jumped in through the window.
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The second uncommon event produced by the earthquake was the giant wave, known to geologists as a seiche, that formed when Hebgen Lake tipped and water began to slosh from one lake shore to the other and back again.
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They were tipped off a target was heading their way and set an ambush.
The Sun
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The cyclist tipped over and her wallet fell out.
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The mug tipped over, spilling hot coffee everywhere.
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Vinny brought the plastic cup of beer to his mouth and tipped his head back, gulping nervously, chugging the entire beverage in just a few slurps.
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Tubercles dark green, conical, 1/3 in. long, ½ in. broad at base, naked at the point, but with four to six spines springing from the areole a little below the point; spines ash-coloured, stiff, black-tipped.
Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
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There was a fulcrum point when the arguments tipped decidedly in one direction.
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It crescendoed and tipped off at an intensely sharp note.
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) -- no, siree, I'm watching just about the most hotly tipped Belfast band in yonks, and I'm in hysterics.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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She was a good candidate, but her lack of computer skills tipped the scales against her.
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Senators, two and two, with short black cloaks, white bands, and gold-tipped staves, trod statelily towards the church.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
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Top brass were tipped off and launched an internal probe.
The Sun
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I nodded, wiping my dry mouth on the back of my hand before I bent at the waist to pick up my bag and my text book, tilting my head when it tipped dizzily to the side.
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Although "polymer tipped bullets is de debil" at long range.
Bullets Do Odd Things at Different Ranges
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She tipped her chair back and fixed her gaze full upon him.
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Someone unknown tipped off the police about the plan to rob the bank.
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It was here suffered to cool for some moments, and then, by means of a pontil tipped with molten glass, carried away to be fire-polished.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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The puppy raised his little paw and tipped the bowl over, spilling some of the chicken soup at the bottom.
Times, Sunday Times
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The senator has been widely tipped as a future president.
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Dutch interest in monopolizing spice production in the East Indies led them to wage war against the Macassarese, whose weaponry included blowguns that shot poison-tipped darts.
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Her hair was snowy white, tipped in black, twisted together in clumps to resemble feathers and pulled up out of her face with a black strip of leather.
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The whole boat swayed and tipped.
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Somewhere further away, a tail tipped in membranous, half-transparent white fin violently flailed in the water, rippling all the way up to where Po had shot her arrow.
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I still don't like certain sorts of plants much because of the fear of that programme - red tipped slimy looking specimens terrify me!
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They were tipped off a target was heading their way and set an ambush.
The Sun
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Pluto seems to have suffered a major collision that tipped it 122 degrees from the vertical.
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Anthony Buckeridge assembles the real essence of the retired schoolmaster - Panama hat, silver-tipped cane, swan-necked pipe (minus tobacco since a heart attack last year).
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The plane, tipped over on its back, was in a remarkable state of preservation courtesy of the frozen environment.
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Newgate Market, off Parliament Street is controversially claimed to be a popular hang-out for underage smokers, while a city car park is tipped as a spot where a passing student may be persuaded to buy youngsters a litre of cheap cider.
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He went on to experiment with how far a branch could be extended in any one direction before the tree tipped over.
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It is thought a jealous rival tipped off officers.
The Sun
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He suffered burns to his abdomen, groin and legs when the bowl was tipped over.
Times, Sunday Times
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He interrupted her thoughts as he tipped his head a different angle to get another different look of her face against the light.
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Satyrs often carry the thyrsus: the rod of Dionysus tipped with a pine cone.
Pan and Satyrs
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I had written my final thesis on mysticism and shamanism, complete with illustration and tipped in plates.
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In the end, repeated rumors of Tory biowarfare tipped the balance.
The Panic Virus
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Elah then returned to the sink and poured the last remaining drops into the sink, touched plastic-tipped fingers to it and abluted the smooth surface of his face, muttering a few words of prayer as he did so.
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Far better, though, they tipped off the police that the law was being flouted and the whole operation was busted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sleeves rolled up, Sebastian leaned against the wall with his chair tipped back on two legs and sucked on a cheroot.
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The dew, jewelling a thousand spider-webs, the sparkling brightness of the air, the exquisite purity of the atmosphere, and grandeur of space and loneliness rimmed about by rose-tipped skies and far forget-me-not hills make a magic to catch the heart in a net from which it never quite escapes.
Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
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But a major police and coastguard operation swung into action after one worried chum tipped off cops.
The Sun
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She was tipped to become one of the first female bishops had the change gone through.
Times, Sunday Times
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Colourful piping tipped the edges of flesh toned dresses.
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She tipped over the chair and collapsed into the corner with a splintering crash.
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Although the seats can be tipped forward to give extra cargo room, they cannot be removed.
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He tipped his head in acknowledgement when he saw us.
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The continuous roar of the plane's engines changed tone and the wings tipped as it banked over the pine forest.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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The most common tools used by farmers were metal tipped ploughs for turning over the soil and harrows to cover up the soil when seeds had been planted.
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Her endorsement tipped the balance in nomination contest after nomination contest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forests covered the planet with natural formations of mighty mountains tipped with snow.
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Boucher's cupidons bear the family traits of their elder sisters, Boucher's nymphs and shepherdesses: a plump litheness; long-lashed wide ingenuous eyes; small light-tipped noses.
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The word "unromantic" in the same sentence should have tipped me off; though there was a recorded instance of its use before 1800, it wasn't yet in currency at the time Cowell was supposedly writing.
"Contested Will"
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He was prime minister from 1995 to 1997 during Chirac's first term as president, and is widely tipped as his most likely successor.
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The thing that tipped it into "backbreaking" was the 5 pound roll of wrapping paper I slid into the basket at the last minute!
Hello hand truck, hello dolly
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Ronald in contrast was resplendent in a cool all-white suit, white pimp daddy hat, white snakeskin shoes, ivory tipped cane - and pearly white teeth.
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Damien blinked, falling back into his chair so hard he nearly tipped over.
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But their new racecourse is tipped to buck the trend.
The Sun
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They were also tipped off about the shipment of centrifuges used to enrich uranium.
Times, Sunday Times
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The swab is a paper stick and double tipped with 100% cotton.
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He has been widely tipped as the President's successor/to succeed the President.
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accreted" is what tipped me off to what i was doing. ironically, i came by the word "accreted" honestly, laboring through many synonyms until i found the perfect geological/metaphorical term. but it was so mievillian that maybe it drug the rest of the paragraph into that territory behind it. who knows.
China Miévilling
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If you are ice fishing a plain minnow under a bobber will work or a jig tipped with a minnow or powerbait crappie nibbles.
Best bait for crappie
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He casually tipped the chair next to him where he had dumped the pieces of the pictures, and the pieces fell quietly onto the floor beneath the chair.
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It is thought a jealous rival tipped off officers.
The Sun
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She tipped herself sideways on her cushions and stretched one bare foot with an anklet around it towards Christopher.
THE LIVES OF CHRISTOPHER CHANT
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He was widely tipped for success.
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If they tipped decently, they probably were not gunning for you.
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There is also the issue that point short-range interceptors, when dealing with incoming missiles, are most effective when nuclear tipped.
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He had his chair tipped back on its two rear legs and was waving his ever-present cheroot around animatedly, managing not to spill his martini in the process.
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Her endorsement tipped the balance in nomination contest after nomination contest.
Times, Sunday Times
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The teams were evenly matched until two quick goals from Robson tipped the balance in favour of England.
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On the south side, almost at the edge of the cliff, stood a stone circle until it was tipped piecemeal over the brink by sportive youths.
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The poleax tipped up and followed him into oblivion.
Nemesis
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The doorkeeper tipped his hat as we entered.
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Last night's, however, tipped over into the sensational and I felt he lost his usual dispassionate objectivity.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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The excavator had been lowering a skip to the bottom of the hole when it tipped over the edge and tumbled down.
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Someone unknown tipped off the police about the plan to rob the bank.
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The two rear carriages tipped over on their sides before the train came to a halt.
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The wings are tipped with yellow.
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To assess for undermined and tunneled areas, use a moistened cotton-tipped applicator to probe the wound periphery.
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The most obvious course for a politician tipped for greatness, yet hampered by a cherubic countenance and a light voice, would be to gain a reputation for solidity.
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When the fishermen had had enough for the day, after around six hours, they had landed three different species of sharks - five hammerhead, ten threshers and 15 black-tipped reef sharks.
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Grey plover: ash grey with feathers white-tipped, the diagnostic dark patch of feathers beneath its wings.
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Pushing the bar out to the left encouraged Matilda to soar right, and vice versa, while pulling the bar back tipped her wing downwards and likewise pointed us earthwards.
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Each week the whistling dustman came down the back garden, hoisted the full dustbin on his shoulder, carried it up the garden and tipped the contents into the dustcart.
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Ralph had tipped Grover off about the developer being in over his head.
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The most cruelly-worded, cold-blooded, data - backed denunciation, using every needlesharp descriptive usage in the book (you more than most will recognize that sense of a job well done as 'publish' is pressed), is delivered with so much more ooomph when delivered with good nature, (despite the rage and contempt experienced while concocting the venom-tipped arrows).
Farewell Bill Deedes
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Police say they were tipped off to a suspicious package near a parking garage next to the hotel.
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They are in all manner of shapes, strings of mucuna and poison-beans; carved images stuck over with feathers and tassels; padlocks with a cowrie or a mirror set in them; horns full of mysterious "medicine;" iron - tipped poles; bones; birds 'beaks and talons; skins of snakes and leopards, and so forth.
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In this way, the capsule can open and close an electric circuit depending on the angle at which it is tipped.
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She tipped the desk and the books fell off.
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When it occurs, choriocarcinoma is thus a double tragedy: an abnormal pregnancy compounded by a lethal malignancy, birth tipped into death.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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Recent limited-edition releases of various cask finishes have been building the distillery's reputation and it is tipped as one to watch.
Times, Sunday Times
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She holds out a crossbow, ‘Don't try anything funny, this arrow is poisoned tipped, if it even nicks you, you will die in a matter of minutes.’
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He's tipped as a future world champion.
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His soup bowl snaked from his tray, tipped, tilted, the liquid ran steaming to the bowl in front of Byrkin.
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Next in size to the echidna is the white-tipped rat (UROMYS HIRSUTIS?), water-loving, nocturnal in its habits, fierce and destructive.
Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Moore won the world youth triple jump crown in 2001 and has been tipped for future success.
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Southern launched a probe after we tipped them off.
The Sun
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She tipped her head back to gaze up at him, seeing the smouldering satisfaction in his half-closed eyes.
Western Man
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From a cerebral, indomitable, and ultimately overconfident persona, MacArthur tipped into an unsoldierly emergency-man mode.
Magic and Mayhem
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Suddenly the horse jumped up and tipped its rider off.
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He tipped the table over in front of him.
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If he did approach publishers with the manuscript, a lot of people could have tipped off the paper.
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The stomach is spilt open and the contents tipped onto the ground.
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A retired law enforcement official reportedly tipped the FBI to a connection between a man who died a decade ago and the man known as D.B. Cooper, who leaped from a jetliner he skyjacked in 1971.
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He tipped his head to one side and sighed dramatically.
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She has been tipped as a future member of the Welsh Assembly.
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In fact, one Russian submarine officer refused an order to fire a nuclear tipped missile at an American ship which was dropping depth charges onto the sub.
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Tipped to tumble, Motherwell now surf the wave of just one loss in six games thanks to an unexpected capacity to maximise the sum of their unremarkable talents and convert it resolutely into a winning equation.
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The one-time Bristol curate was originally tipped for Merseyside but made it clear that he would turn it down because he had not been on Humberside long enough.
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All the pictures in the book were tipped in carelessly and are beginning to come loose.
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Nation's biggest sickie day is tipped tomorrow TOMORROW'S the biggest 'sickie' day of the year as workers turn the one-day holiday into four.
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She then followed me into the dressing area and hovered until I tipped her.
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He is being tipped as the next Prime Minister.
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After cutting the pleural membrane between the sterna and terga, it was possible to remove the entire genital apparatus with a fine-tipped forceps.
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Unfortunately my failure to treat the breakage with the gravity it merited tipped him into a state of near hysteria.
AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
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He tipped the table over in front of him.
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The wiry Estrada flashes a partially capped smile as she gratefully recalls her first maquila job twisting electrical wires with latex-tipped fingers.
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a purple dorsal awn, 3-nerved paleate; the two marginal nerves are densely bearded with long white or purple tinged hairs from near the base to almost the apex and the mid-nerve also similarly bearded with long hairs on both sides, and the base with a tuft of long hairs; the palea is as long as the glume, coriaceous obovately-cuneate, obtuse, minutely bifid, purple-tipped, with folded hyaline margins, 2-keeled; keels shortly ciliate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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With a full house behind him, it will be a pressure-cooker atmosphere for a clash that boxing pundits have tipped as one of the tastiest domestic dust-ups of the year.
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With his left arm he gave Billie a clumsy and rather inebriated embrace, and tipped his glass to Albert.
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He was also kicked so hard his scooter almost tipped over.
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