lip-lock

Definitions

Examples

• Ney said McDonnell needs to “keep a stiff lip” and stay in close contact with family members.

• She narrowed her eyes, bit her lip as if to chew over the question, and whisked some stray blond hairs away from her face.

• The higher your score, the more likely it is that you can lip-sync along to the “Checkers” Speech.

• While the desk sergeant ran a background check, he was roughed up by another officer in the lock-up.

• “Now they will definitely lock Navalny in prison,” one of the women in the crowd said.

• The place was used as a lock-up for some time after the incorporation, and the old irons were kept on show for years.

• I do not know—I do not dare to believe—that I shall live to hear that key grating in the lock.

• He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes wandering to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said.

• The eyebrows were low and thick, the upper lip was sensitive, quivering sometimes as she talked, but the lower was firm and full.

• Ze under lip rather retires, and this adds to the receding effect of the chin, you see.