lips

Synonyms for lips

noun edge, brink

c.1600, "to kiss," from lip (n.). Meaning "to pronounce with the lips only" is from 1789. Related: Lipped; lipping.

Let young men hear the praise of virtue from the lips of beauty.

Let me hear from your own lips the words that must decide my destiny.

As she leaned over him, he smiled faintly, and imprinted a kiss upon her lips.

Her lips were very red and her teeth were very white, and I couldn't tell about her eyes.

She quietly yielded, but her color came and went, and her lips moved as if to speak.

As usual, balm was on his lips, and I found encouragement and support.

"You shall hear from me, sir," said the officer, biting his lips.

Falling from the lips of others, they dropped with conviction into my own soul.

He watched her as she strove to speak, but if her lips stirred they made no sound.

He removed from his lips the short corn-cob pipe he was smoking.