HIP in a Sentence

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For HIP, below is one of 38 sentences:
On this, as he passed, he gave Ulysses a kick on the hip out of pure wantonness, but Ulysses stood firm, and did not budge from the path.

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 Meanings and Examples of HIP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hip
 n.  the fruit of a rose plant
 n.  the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  He walked with one hand upon his hip and in the other hand he held a stick with which he tapped the turf lightly.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
2  You can't hit anything unless you take aim and fire from the shoulder; but these chaps fired from the hip with their eyes shut.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
3  I saw a row of pilgrims squirting lead in the air out of Winchesters held to the hip.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
4  He takes a stealthy look at her, and begins to twirl his moustache nervously, with his left hand akimbo on his hip.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
5  Shot in the hip in a wood yard.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
6  His hip bones stood out like an old cow's, his ribs showed like a washboard and his back was a mass of sores.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Now he looked like a little old man, so bent was he by the wound in his hip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
8  He pulled his hip boots out to full length and examined them for holes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  If his leg were off at the hip, now, it would be a different thing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50. Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah.
10  He turned his head and saw a little Savoyard, about ten years of age, coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his marmot-box on his back.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
11  At Marengo, I received two sabre-blows on the back of my neck, a bullet in the right arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER III—JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER
12  And Louis XIII twisted his mustache proudly, placing his hand upon his hip.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
13  On this, as he passed, he gave Ulysses a kick on the hip out of pure wantonness, but Ulysses stood firm, and did not budge from the path.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XVII
14  With her hand laid flat on her lower hip, she made a tour around the room.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - The...
15  Then he was pronounced a cure, and could return to life again, with the lower half of his body, from the hips down, paralysed for ever.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  Her coat blouses above the hip.
2  The new coats blouse gracefully above the hip line.
3  At least one-third of all women over ninety have sustained a hip fracture.
4  I'm hip to his little tricks.
5  Her hip has been troublesome for quite a while, and she'll probably need surgery on it.
6  Judges don't have to shoot from the hip.
7  The dirk mentioned by Wolf Larsen rested in its sheath on my hip.
8  Always show a thin waistline with wide hips, which give her sex appeal and also make her physique powerful.
9  He was hipped when he dropped from the tree.