Sentence examples for the pip from inspiring English sources
verb
To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin
- He led throughout the race but was pipped at the post.
Clarke defended the PIP reforms.
Labour will press the PIP issue hard this week.
Pip the snob, the Pip who is embarrassed when his brother-in-law Joe Gargery, the blacksmith, sits down to eat with him in London, is the Pip I was, the Pip I care to think I have discarded.
The review was commissioned in the aftermath of the PIP breast implant scandal.
On the landing, there is a huge framed photograph of Nigella looking quite the pip.
"But because of the PIP letter, I've been referred back," she says.
To New York's groovy underground culture, he was the pip in the Big Apple.
Yet two thirds of those claimants would not have been affected by the PIP.
All the people I had contact with throughout the PIP process were kind and sympathetic.
"Contains the game, the Pip-Boy.
In ICU, the PIP-TAZ resistance rate of E. coli is much higher.
