Definitions
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- adverb With a
piping sound; with a high pitch.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Linda, whose little pointed-chinned face had been shifting from one speaker to the next, said pipingly, "You going to be voting this year, Daddy?"
The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990
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His shrill voice rose pipingly in the wintry air as he demanded to know what was the trouble out there.
The Portygee Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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To this lucid address, which Mr Plornish always delivered as if he had composed it (as no doubt he had) with enormous labour, Mrs Plornish's father pipingly replied:
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841
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As he stepped out of the wings for his final variation, my boy's protest was pipingly audible: "Oh no, not him again!"
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As he stepped out of the wings for his final variation, my boy's protest was pipingly audible: "Oh no, not him again!"
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As he stepped out of the wings for his final variation, my boy's protest was pipingly audible: "Oh no, not him again!"
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