Sentence examples for being the tip of from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lowrie credits Mr. Block with being "the tip of the spear" in Wisconsin, with his years of grass-roots organizing leading to the state flipping "from blue to red" in the 2010 elections when Republicans took the governorship and the Legislature.

DIST R is the relative distance from the tip of the tree (with zero being the tip of the tree and one being ground level).

The exponential increases in Afghan casualties, they say, are just part of being the tip of the counterinsurgency spear, so there's no need to delay the complete withdrawal of American troops by the end of 2016.

This sequence of events can be compared with an iceberg, having several thresholds, pain being the tip of the iceberg.

"It's the tip of the iceberg".

It is the tip of an iceberg.

That is the tip of it.

"She is the tip of the spear".

That's the tip of the iceberg.

The banks are the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

"The phone calls were the tip of the iceberg.