lip
noun
either of the two fleshy parts or folds forming the margins of the mouth and functioning in speech.
was lipping
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past progressiveof lip.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Glancing along its length, Jarwin saw that here and there the edge was lipping over, while in one place, not far off, the thunder of its fall had already begun.
From Jarwin and Cuffy by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The tide had long since turned; it was rising; slowly and continuously it was lipping nearer and nearer—slowly but with certainty was it coming; and I perceived all this!
From The Boy Tar by Edward Read
