piping

Example Sentences

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He wore a dark blue jersey with red-and-white piping.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

Checking up before a tight hairpin—braking late, downshifting with the paddle shifters, turning hard into hairpin corners, the weight of the wheel growing heavy, the little engine piping at full spool.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

Your daughter made you a lukewarm cup of tea, and you are rewarding her with a piping hot mug of the finest Colombian coffee.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 6, 2026

Higher in the mountains, the evidence of BTAZ’s grazing was even clearer: swaths of ground chewed and trampled bare, discarded plastic piping, cow feces and bones in an unfenced creek.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

Cassiopeia’s piping, scolding voice was like a puppet version of Penelope’s.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood