PIPE in a Sentence

Learn PIPE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

262 example sentences for PIPE, such as:

1. Join one section of pipe to the next.
2. Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe.
3. A fountain of water shot from the pipe.
4. Join the two sections of pipe together.
5. I can't reach into the pipe — it's too narrow.

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 Meanings and Examples of PIPE
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pipe
 n.  a hollow cylindrical shape
 n.  a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  The man's novel, with which he had read himself to sleep was lying upon the bed, and his pipe was on a chair beside him.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
3  And now," he resumed, cuddling the pipe lighter in the palm of his hand, "for the pleasantest part of my duty.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
4  In the waste-yard outside, the steam from the escape pipe, the litter of barrels and old iron, the shining heaps of coals, the ashes everywhere, were shrouded in a veil of mist and rain.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
5  The Dodger sighed again, and resumed his pipe: as did Charley Bates.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  Master Charley Bates, having laughed heartily again, resumed his pipe with tears in his eyes.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  'Light him down,' said Sikes, who was filling his pipe.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
8  Moreover, as he darned he smoked a pipe, the stem and bowl of which were red also.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
9  "That is the best I can do for you," he said, stepping down and retiring to the path, where he resumed the smoking of his pipe as he walked up and down.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
10  It was a clay pipe, and its colour was reddish.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
11  The men had been attracted to this object by a voice behind the pipe asking for a light.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
12  Then he lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
13  As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
14  Then I went into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would be best to do.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
15  Through the haze I had a vague vision of Holmes in his dressing-gown coiled up in an armchair with his black clay pipe between his lips.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Problem
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
16  Join the two sections of pipe together.
17  Join one section of pipe to the next.
18  I'm trying to measure the outflow of water/sewage from that pipe.
19  I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.
20  Air pressure forces the water through the pipe.
21  The gas pipe has been blocked off to prevent escapes.
22  I can't reach into the pipe — it's too narrow.
23  The plumber splayed the end of the pipe before fitting it over the next section.
24  A fountain of water shot from the pipe.
25  The byproduct of the engine's combustion process is almost exclusively water vapor, which comes out of an exhaust pipe.
26  A sewer is an artificial pipe or system used to remove human liquid waste and to provide drainage.
27  The firefighters spout water out of the pipe for more than 2 hours.
28  Scent can be remarkably evocative: the aroma of pipe tobacco evokes the memory of my father.
29  The candy eventually dissolved, but Shikowitz said kids could also accidentally inhale the fine powder down the wrong pipe.
30  They assembled in camp toward supper-time, hungry and happy; but now a difficulty arose -- hostile Indians could not break the bread of hospitality together without first making peace, and this was a simple impossibility without smoking a pipe of peace.