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.
• And that’s why the American people are sick of the lip service and the hypocrisy.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 27 June 2018
• 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
• This is why the American people are sick of the lip service and the hypocrisy.
  — Jen Kirby, Vox, 26 June 2018
• For starters, the frigid, fractured state of the core Avengers team only gets lip service.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The last five years have taught me that most people are happy with lip service.
  — Jason Johnson, The Root, 11 Oct. 2017
• So, when answering the calls to open your purse, rather than just give lip service to a cause, how wide to crack it?
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 4 June 2020
• When women began to rise up, a lot of men began to give lip service to it.
  — Rebecca Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
• The great powers paid lip service to their right to return but did little to help bring it about.
  — Nathan Thrall, Time, 14 May 2018
• Its all lip service, betting Hue is fired the day after his last game.
  — Nathaniel Cline, cleveland.com, 8 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Talk of values in such firms is often no more than lip service.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• But the former employees alleged in the letter that some of the stunts were just lip service.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 10 June 2021
• Not just the absurd lip service usually paid by politicians in the wake of these tragedies.
  — Megan Friedman, Good Housekeeping, 16 Feb. 2018
• For years, even the best Texas barbecue joints only paid lip service to sides.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• Of course, there is so much more beyond appearances, the red carpet lip service, and the awards show shout-outs.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2018
• The people in power, in Washington and in boardrooms across the country, will pay lip service to the tragedy.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 25 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Don't hang your hopes on someone who only pays lip service to a promise.
  — oregonlive, 11 June 2020
• Trump at least is, [while] everyone else gave it lip service.
  — Rolfe Winkler, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2018
• The series takes aim at the hypocrisy of corporations that pay lip service to going green but will jump into bed with oil if enough money is on the line.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 7 Aug. 2024
• Surely, an enormous tragedy is being written making Oedipus tragedy one of immaterial lip service.
  — Dr. Robert G. Rabil, Sun Sentinel, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024