pipe
noun
a hollow cylinder of metal, wood, or other material, used for the conveyance of water, gas, steam, petroleum, etc.
has piped
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present perfectof pipe (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Yet, in New York, on the eve of the reforms coming into force, a familiar chorus of concern has piped up.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 20, 2019
City Manager Jim Couch has said it could be 15 years before the city, which for decades has piped in water from two other southeastern reservoirs, would need to begin drawing water from Sardis.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 17, 2017
To drown out ambient sound, Hachette has piped “pink noise” — white noise that has been set to the frequencies of human voices — through a system of overhead speakers.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2014
But fiery Pandit Nehru, while he has piped down so far as acts are concerned, continued to pipe words.
From Time Magazine Archive
But few have given its children that delightful epitome of the songs of spring birds which has piped with irrepressible freshness now for nearly four centuries: “Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!”
From Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
