Dip

There is a dip in the road ahead.

They were all doomed to be disappointed, however, for the errant engine decided at Stanley junction to spend the remainder of its crowded hour of freedom on the Aberdeen line, and finally came to rest, short of breath, in the dip between Ballathie and Cargill, near the bridge over the Tay.

After a signal check at Darley Dale, on the third run, the Pacific mounted the long 1 in 100 at a steady 53-54 m.p.h. and attained a brief 60 m.p.h. in the short dip before Monsal Dale.

With his precious charge / Embark'd, Sinicus gently ſteers along; / The dip of oars in uniſon awake / Without alarming ſilence; […]

I’m going for a dip before breakfast.

The Moocher was a "dip" in a dilettante sort of way, and his particular graft was boarding street-cars with his papers and grabbing women's pocket-books.

To steal a housewife's purse might mean that her children would have to go hungry; but what of that, if the flash young “dip” could gain admiration from his mates by boasting that he had “frisked a judy's cly and lifted a skinful of bunce”?

Skeet is one of the modern young breed of dip, no longer interested in the pocket watches of the old and inattentive, finding more challenge in lifting a watch right off a wrist in broad daylight […].

This onion dip is just scrumptious.

by the feeble light of the dip, he beheld the pale, haggard face of Smallbones

Packed a lip full of beluga caviar after mistaking a tin for a can of dip and then spat the juice into an urn that I thought was a sombre spittoon.

I'd missed them by a couple of hours. This dip did not bode well for the Hudwit.

My Dad, God bless him, rarely cooked anything, but if he ever did he would make himself an egg banjo! Fried bread? Or ‘dip’?

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Dip your biscuit into your tea.

He dipped the end of a towel in cold water and with it began to flick him on the face, his wife all the while holding her face between her hands and sobbing in a way that was heart breaking to hear.

The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out.

Dip your lights as you meet an oncoming car.

The engine's three headlights lit the way clearly, and when a train approached in the other direction, Driver Wegg dipped his lights; the other driver politely replying by doing the same.

The sailor rushed to the flag hoist to dip the flag in return.

The farmer is going to dip the cattle today.

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[…] during the reigns of King James and King Charles I, there were but very few children dipped in the font.

A cold shuddering dew / Dips me all o'er.

He was […] dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.

to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water

Whoever dips too deep will find death in the pot.

Live on the use and never dip thy lands.

The sun is dipping over the now dry and clear Cornish landscape, and is a conclusion to a good day.

Strata of rock dip.

The tunnel dips approximately 15 metres below Regents Canal and has a rising gradient at its northern end of 1-in-107.

When the time came, he dipped.

Twelve people worked on the project, but by the end, most of them had dipped on the real work.

Remember on my first lick, got lost in a house / Had to dip, bro, quick, before the dogs came out

I assured him that I'd been birding long enough to know that there were no guarantees with birds and I wouldn't have held it against him if I'd dipped.

A commander tells the soldiers, "We're going on a 5 mile run". And some dip asks, "Do we have to bring our kitbags?" At which point, the answer is yes. It wouldn't have been if the soldier hadn't asked the question.