739 examples of sipping in sentences

Besides these, a tall slim man stood leaning against the bar, at the far end of it, talking to Bill Smithers, the landlord, and sipping whisky-and-soda between pulls at his cigar.

We pledged our host, the ladies sipping from our cupsneed I say who from mine?with little startled cries of agitation when the liquor stung them.

" "Impossible," said my father, sipping his wine.

She was gaily sipping a cup of herbal tea and having a lively conversation with the Scarecrow and the Patchwork Girl.

He planned to get enough wealth to buy the entire farm and spend the rest of his days sipping strawberry daiquiris and conversing with MacDonald Lindsay about the joys of being affluent.

" "In no sense a mission?" suggested the other, sipping his liqueur thoughtfully.

" She removed her hands and sat sipping her coffee in silence.

Ware replied, sipping his cocktail.

Only Galen, sipping at his wine, seemed philosophically calm.

After sipping up a couple of slow ones, the guys propose a little poker game.

"Mistress Betty," said Geoffrey Yorke, under cover of sipping a glass of port wine which she had offered him, "I drink to your very good health;" then softly, "I have not seen you for a week; have you been quite well since the Christmas party?" "Is it so long?"willfully; "Clarissa said you called one day.

While I was sipping my punch, I heard the Baronne telling Héloise that her nephew, the Marquis, had consented to marry Victorine; and that the Baron would go over to Croixmare the next day to make the formal demand for her hand.

He was sitting in dressing-gown and slippers, sipping his claret, and fondling his fly-book (the only one he ever studied con amore), with a most complacent face.

He spoke to no one, but sat languidly puffing cigarettes and sipping a glass of beer.

I have walked along the terrace cafés of Paris and seen hundreds of men and women sipping their wine and beer, without observing a sign of drunkenness.

They had never been acclimated to chocolate, as had Iglesias and I, by sipping it under the shade of the mimosa and the palm.

I was sipping the cool drink, nibbling the biscuits and enjoying the breeze that was blowing through the room, when the attendant handed me a board about as big as a shingle with a hole drilled through the upper end so that it could be hung on a wall.

" How many more have you, not absolutely lost, but to a certain extent abused, at breakfastsip, sipping away at unnecessary cups of sirupy tea, or gob, gobbling away at jam-buttered rolls, for which nature never calledor "to party giving up what was meant for mankind"forgetting the loss of Time in the Times, and, after a long, blank, brown, and blue study, leaving behind you a most miserable chronicle indeed!

The busy bee, with drowsy hum, That through the summer day, Flies sipping round from flow'y to flow'r, Bearing its sweets away, Is soon constrain'd by wintry winds, To seek her honi'd cell, And giving o'er her wandering life, In quiet there, to dwell.

" I was dressed by nine o'clock and sipping my chocolate.

"Is it not the best coffee in the world?" said Beaufort, sipping his complacently and looking about the crowded room for a familiar face.

It was a long dreary afternoon of eating and drinking; and Ellen was not sorry to get away from the prim wainscoted parlour, where her father and Mr. Whitelaw were solemnly sipping their wine, to wander over the house with Mrs. Tadman.

She had meant, no doubt, to soften her news over a glass or two of chilled white wine which she had counted on sipping during the noon hour.

'I supposeit will come to that presently,' he said, sipping his wine.

'It's no joke, Eugénie, this sipping businessWhere were we?

739 examples of  sipping  in sentences