Sentence examples for off the lip from inspiring English sources

"The chef orders it without the bone and takes off the lip, which is the meat surrounding the eye.

His second shot bounced off the lip, hit a first-aid cart and landed in a bush.

We ducked under the rope, pushed off the lip, and were soon reading the distinctive vocabulary of the C.C.C. trail-builders, who had laid out a thrilling sequence of sharp turns; unannounced dips; wide, sweeping bends; and a "needle" or two, where the woods close in, leaving little room to turn, and all we could do was "point 'em" straight.

This is called snapping off the lip, but few can consistently pull off the maneuver with the precision that Gilmore does: she attacks the lip at a dead-vertical angle, rockets up the most powerful part of the wave, and then turns sharply and plummets straight into the critical, turbulent area near where the wave is breaking.

The wind; it will blow us off the lip, if the lightning doesn't get us first.

Woods hurt his back making an awkward slash at the ball and falling backward while trying to play off the lip of a bunker.

Make sure that when you take off of the lip straight.

"He had a really good backside off-the-lip; really good backside surfer," said John de Sousa Jr., another name at the break, who still runs his family's plumbing business in Montauk.

The LRA has practised mutilation as a tool of terror, cutting off the lips, noses and ears of its victims.

"Spare the rod and spoil the child" rolls off the lips of many of my fellow Georgians, but it's not among the top proverbs in Manhattan.

• Washington Irving's name may not roll off the lips of Knicks fans, whose team drew its name from the author's most memorable creation.