How to Use lip service in a Sentence

lip service

noun

• So far all we've gotten from him is lip service.
• She paid lip service to blue-collar workers, but she did nothing to help them.
• The city pledged to hire on the Freedom House paramedics, says Moon, but that proved to be lip service.
  — Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• But the companies say the goals are much more than lip service.
  — Fortune, 22 June 2021
• This isn't about paying lip service or adding a few glitzy words to the website.
  — Sahar Andrade, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• The white dinner jackets are at the pump, trying to fill the tank at the lip service station.
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2022
• The union is doing much more than paying lip service to ethics.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2022
• For his part, Biden paid lip service to the two-state solution but didn’t seem to believe in it.
  — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Joe Biden has, from time to time, paid lip service to caring about not increasing the deficit.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2021
• But the former employees alleged in the letter that some of the stunts were just lip service.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 10 June 2021
• Too many banks only plan out one to two years—and pay lip service to ensuring years.
  — Ron Shevlin, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Some give it lip service with a short lesson in a history class.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Apr. 2021
• The Cove doesn’t just pay lip service to its healthy reputation.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 27 May 2021
• The question is whether companies are just paying lip service to the idea of doing good.
  — Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2020
• Since then, their attacks have been little more than lip service.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
• Your state senator writes to a colleague that a high-profile task force is meant to be just lip service?
  — Larry Gallup, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2021
• The film presents Doctor Strange’s origin story — and at least pays lip service to modern physics.
  — Dan Falk, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2023
• In practice, however, Musk hasn’t paid more than lip service to the concept.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022
• Yet, the wealth management industry tends to pay lip service to the tax drag on a portfolio.
  — John Jennings, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• Britain didn’t merely pay lip service to the idea that life— particularly the youngest of lives—matters.
  — Tripti Lahiri, Quartz, 25 May 2022
• And the Ravens have shown such talk isn’t just lip service, expending countless resources into the back end of its defense.
  — Daniel Oyefusi, baltimoresun.com, 29 July 2021
• At the same time, many Palestinians see him as doing little more than paying lip service to their cause.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• But the pro-democracy camp has dismissed those overtures as lip service.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2021
• Our leaders shall not pay lip service to Dr. King's memory while refusing to live up to his ideals.
  — Martin Luther King, CNN, 17 Jan. 2022
• A lot of husbands pay lip service to their wives’ independence.
  — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• Surely putting the power in Twitter’s hands for this one lip service award would fix everything.
  — Vulture, 20 Feb. 2022
• In other words, ESG is not merely a marketing tagline to which only lip service is paid.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 14 Mar. 2022
• In these 16 years, corporations spewed volumes of lip service on shrinking the gap.
  — Thanh Nguyen, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• McCarthy began his answer by paying lip service to a great win.
  — James Watkins, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2022
• Locals fear that city officials and private enterprise will once again pay lip service to the tragedy and then move on once the news cameras have left.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024