Idiom
read lips
Meaning
To lipread.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She can read lips, so you do not need to shout.”
“The music at the party was so loud that I had to read lips to understand what my friend was saying.”
“Even in the silence of the crowded room, the detective watched the suspect closely, attempting to read lips to decipher the secret conversation.”
Examples
simple
“She can read lips, so you do not need to shout.”
contextual
“The music at the party was so loud that I had to read lips to understand what my friend was saying.”
complex
“Even in the silence of the crowded room, the detective watched the suspect closely, attempting to read lips to decipher the secret conversation.”
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