DIP in a Sentence

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For DIP, below is one of 99 sentences:
His idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the dip.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dip
 v.  insert into a fluid and withdraw again; immerse for baptism; wet, as if by immersing; moisten; appear to move downward
Classic Sentence: (72 in 5 pages)
1  Beyond the lily pool the ground sank again, and in that dip of the ground, bushes and brambles had mobbed themselves together.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
2  So they would dip through the day and the long cold night.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
3  Then, take this, and go as fast as you can, and dip me up the clearest you can find.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
4  She had come from the direction in which the plume of smoke indicated the position of Merripit House, but the dip of the moor had hid her until she was quite close.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House
5  'All Moscow was burnt down, you know, by a farthing dip,' answered Bazarov.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  Behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI
7  His idea was, first, to concentrate all the artillery in the center, and secondly, to withdraw the cavalry to the other side of the dip.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI
8  The retirement of the center to the other side of the dip in the ground at the rear was hurried and noisy, but the different companies did not get mixed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX
9  She moved forward a step or two and then paused again above the dip of the Corbury road.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
10  "I'll have to hurry up to do it," Ethan mused, as the sleigh dropped down ahead of him over the dip of the school-house hill.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
11  In the long try watches of the night it is a common thing for the seamen to dip their ship-biscuit into the huge oil-pots and let them fry there awhile.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
12  He gave me a most tremendous dip and roll, so that the church jumped over its own weathercock.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
13  Even the children were instructed, each to dip a wooden spoon into Mr. Micawber's pot, and pledge us in its contents.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. THE EMIGRANTS
14  He saw birds come and dip their heads to drink in it and then flick their wings and fly away.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  I must dip my hand again and again in the basin of blood and water, and wipe away the trickling gore.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  I'll allow the children to dip their bread into the soup.
2  Quickly dip the base in and out of cold water.
3  This may encourage gold traders to dip their toes back into the markets.
4  One dip into the bottle should do an entire nail.
5  Put the food on the table so that everyone can dip in.
6  The company had to dip into a reserve fund to pay for all the new equipment.
7  Share prices have taken a slight dip.
8  I noticed little things, a dip of the head, a twitch in the shoulder.
9  It's the sort of book you can just dip into now and again.
10  Our properties dip towards the river, we lost them forever.
11  A quick dip in the pool could invigorate Meg, and with renewed energy she got back to work.
12  Ask the children to guess what's in each container by dipping their hands in.
13  He dipped deep into Western literature.
14  Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss.
15  He dipped the brush into the thick white paint.