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Example sentences for "sipped"

Lexicographically close words:
siphon; siphonal; siphoned; siphons; sipos; sippet; sippets; sipping; sips; siquid
  1. She sipped Liebfraunmilch, and dimpled and rippled while he told her that he had mines in Peru, and that he had been away from civilization for twenty years.

  2. Nancy the while, like a lazy princess, sipped her chocolate, with her little finger in the air.

  3. He sat up, and having sipped some tea, turned over his letters.

  4. Lord Henry sipped his champagne in a meditative manner.

  5. The Chevalier did look perplexed at his inscrutable sister, who only smiled over the table at him, as she nonchalantly cracked nuts and sipped her wine by drops.

  6. Le Gardeur had sipped a few drops of the cup of astrology from the venerable Professor Vallier.

  7. Mr. Weil sipped his coffee with a wise expression.

  8. He feared an anti-climax, and was apprehensive that the wonderful romance would lie untouched for long months while Roseleaf sipped honey from the lips of his beloved.

  9. Archie poured out a glass of Bass' ale and sipped it slowly.

  10. Very obliging of cook," commented Jane, as she sipped her coffee.

  11. The very few glasses of Lafitte that I had sipped had the effect of rendering me drowsy, and I felt inclined to take a nap of some fifteen or twenty minutes, as is my custom after dinner.

  12. Soon after I got up after filling my own, and standing before her again filled up hers which she had sipped without her seeing me.

  13. I did, and then she took them off, sat down, and soon sipped brandy and water looking at me.

  14. He therefore filled his glass and sipped it slowly, while Mrs. Stamford looked wistfully at him.

  15. Here his fair neighbour, who had finished her soup and sipped her sherry, began to hint an assertion of social rights.

  16. He sipped his cup of tea slowly, as he talked, and was easily persuaded to take another.

  17. Mr. Chillip shook his head, stirred his negus, and sipped it.

  18. And so he sat, and sipped and sipped, and thought what a beauty she would be to transfer to Doughty Street.

  19. Mrs. Murchison sipped her tea in a very ecstasy of content.

  20. He cleared his throat and sipped his coffee again.

  21. He had sipped his tequila, feeling his excitement growing, then continued.

  22. She sipped at a cup of black coffee emblazoned with the SatCom logo, the laser eye of the Cyclops, and impatiently drummed her fingers on the workstation keyboard, trying not to be distracted by meditations on mortality.

  23. Dupré slowly sipped the other while he asked-- "Do you anticipate any trouble here?

  24. He sipped his absinthe slowly, as absinthe should be sipped, and it was evident that he was deeply concerned with the problem that confronted his comrade.

  25. He said a poet might be likened to a butterfly, or perhaps to the more industrious bee, who sipped honey from every flower, and so enriched the world.

  26. Don sipped at the fiery Mexican drink, looked at the fat man over the glass.

  27. Demming shifted his great bulk in his beach chair, sipped some of his cordial and said, "Very well.

  28. She watched also to see if, as most of the strikingly handsome men she had known, he courted tell-tale glances from other eyes, and sipped honey from any flower within reach, as well as from his own particular flower.

  29. Slice of bread and butter; tumblerful of hot rain-water sipped at bedtime.

  30. Half-pint of hot boiled water, or clear vegetable soup, sipped slowly.

  31. Half-pint of boiled hot water, sipped slowly; or quarter-pint Sanum Tonic Tea, taken hot.

  32. Eric sipped his wine thoughtfully and avoided her eyes.

  33. They sipped the wine, winking at each other.

  34. Sir Geoffrey sipped his wine, glancing at Fishpingle out of the corner of his eye.

  35. The judge found a corkscrew attached to the bottle, and sipped his draft under the absorbed regard of the group.

  36. Beside him, upon a small table, was a glass of "orange squeeze," which he sipped at intervals.

  37. She sipped her glass and choked as she tried to swallow the wine.

  38. The reason I had none of the trouble I anticipated," remarked Devonham, as he sipped the reviving liquor, "is simple enough.

  39. And while he thus, as Secretary, set the note, Father Collins sipped his wine and beamed upon the group.

  40. He sipped his drink and made mental notes.

  41. They fluttered round her, sipped her tea, And lived in quarters fair and free; Nor were they banished, till she found That wasps had stings and felt the wound.

  42. Judy poured out some hot water from a blanketed jug, and sipped it.

  43. He rose, and sipped the glass of milk that stood on the side-table.

  44. But he sipped it, and made overtures to the baby.

  45. Illustration] She sipped in thoughtful silence after this first plunge, and presently she was surprised to find the bottom of the pot in full view.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sipped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.