Dipping

//ˈdɪpɪŋ//

"Dipping" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Have you ever gone skinny dipping?

Would you ever go skinny dipping?

Tom doesn't think it's a very good idea to go skinny dipping.

Is there any dipping sauce for this grilled meat?

The children were skinny dipping.

I look out on the brilliant heaven, and see a milky way of powdery splendour wandering through it, and clusters and knots of stars and planets shining serenely in the blue frosty spaces; and the armed apparition of Orion, his spear pointing away into immeasurable space, gleaming overhead; and the familiar constellation of the Plough dipping down into the west; and I think when I go in again that there is one Christmas the less between me and my grave.

They soaked pieces of bread in wine, dipping them into their ladles.

I've never gone skinny dipping.

Tom likes dipping cookies in milk.

If you're worried about your socks smelling, dipping them in citric acid solution might do the trick.

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[…] it was ordeined, that children shuld be brought to the church, there to receiue baptisme in faire water, with thrée dippings into the same, in the name of the father, the sonne, and the Holie-ghost […]

By an infinite number of materials, I mean colours and shades of all kinds and degrees; some notion of which variety may be formed by supposing a piece of white silk by several dippings gradually dyed to a black; and carrying it in like manner through the prime tints of yellow, red, and blue; and then again, by making the like progress through all the mixtures that are to be made of these three original colours.

Baby Adam cried a good deal at the beginning of the wake, for the mourners, not knowing about babies, had neglected to feed him. Cyrus soon solved the problem. He dipped a rag in whisky and gave it to the baby to suck, and after three or four dippings young Adam went to sleep.

That same trip would have to go down as the greatest dipping fest in Australian birding history. I had five target species and never saw one, despite spending a week looking for them.

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