Devlin's last impression of the ornate dining room was the sight of the debonair Trent sipping his green chartreuse.
Trent remembering Moor's report as to the members of the household pointed to Edward Conway sipping his third cocktail.
A little, unknown man, who had been sitting at the bar for the last two hours sipping brandy and water, and who from his extreme taciturnity and quiet had been scarcely observed, now rose.
A strange day," he thought, as with an abstracted air he filled his glass, and sipping the wine, leant back in his chair.
A luxurious dinner without trouble, suited him after his exhaustion; sipping his claret, he revolved his plans.
Sometimes we were sipping fruity wine in Samos or eating "lumps of delight" and smoking Latakia in Smyrna; and generally we represented the United States in these uttermost parts with great dignity.
The slow sipping of small doses will gradually produce the same effect.
The wives and daughters of the chieftains were sitting under an awning sipping coffee and eating cake.
And when, at the end of the meal, they were sipping delicious wine, and her beautiful lips lisped the customary health, the subdued tenderness he had been feeling suddenly expanded into a strong passion.
Overborne by the assurance of the officer perhaps, or thinking him quite chatty and chummy, a cork was withdrawn, and the officer was sipping capital old crusted port.
Leisurely sippinghis tea and eating his toast, this traveller was found by the landlord in the breakfast-room when the other passengers were seated and the coach was on the point of starting.
Old Brandon, sipping his tea by spoonfuls, listened, and stared at me with his little eyes.
Two young men were there now, sipping their beer, or whatever it was, and exchanging compliments with Miss Panken.
Miss Panken sat sipping a cup of tea; Lizzie a tumbler of hot water that gave forth a suspicious odour.
Mr. Paul, sipping his port wine; which he always took out of a claret-glass.
They were always together, those three, playing cards at the Club or sipping lemonade and vermouth on the terrace.
But just as they were sipping their tea, they espied Wu Hsin-teng's wife walk in.
Apologising, she resumed, sipping her tea the while: "My lady you're not aware that young girls of this age must be in everything kept strictly in hand.
After sipping a cup of tea, old goody Liu began to relate, for the benefit of dowager lady Chia, a few of the occurrences she had seen or heard of in the country.
Nor did she feel justified to protract her stay, so after sipping her tea, she intimated to Pao-ch'ai her intention to go, and they quitted the apartment.
She got back into her bed--a dark place, maybe--and she began sipping and sipping the butter till she had the whole of it swallowed.
Hence I was glad enough to get within the tea-house's hospitable walls, and sat there quite content to go on sipping the fragrant infusion for long enough.
His little, ordinary soul seemed to flatten itself like an Oriental before his emperor when he spoke to Carroll sipping his bowl of tomato-soup in the cheap restaurant.
As he was sipping it he heard a voice pronounce his name, and, glancing up, saw two pretty girls and a young man at a near-by table.
When the boy was seated, blissfully sippinghis chocolate, Carroll asked calmly for his chloroform.
Rarely have I seen Ajax seduced by the wild phlox blossoms, but I have sometimes caught him sipping there.
The little tan and grey thing hovering in air before the flowers was almost as large as the humming-birds, sipping honey as they did, swift in flight as they; and both my parents thought it a bird.
Numbers of them have been found sipping sap at a tree freshly cut and you know we take them at night with bait.
His father sent for him in the morning; Louis found him reading the Tribune in his room and sipping a bowl of hot milk and toast.
Of course, if it had been necessary," answered Miss Alicia, nervously sipping her tea.
Brian had made himself as respectable as possible under the odd circumstances of dining in his riding-dress, and sat next to Madge, contentedly sipping his wine, and listening to the pleasant chatter which was going on around him.
It is indeed a great risk to run,' she said, sipping her tea.
It is here that she seems to pair, while sipping the sugary exudations of the small white flowers.
As long as she does not feel ripe eggs coming to her oviduct, the greenbottle remains in the sun, hovering to and fro and sipping modest mouthfuls from the carcass.
About ten o'clock on the evening of the trial Rankin was sitting among his possessions sippingsome "gift-spoon" tea.
After gulping down the first glass of sherry in the American fashion, they sat sipping the second as the Scotch and English do.
After lunch the ladies went up into the city to visit some friends, and the men were lying about under the awning, chatting, smoking, and sipping claret.
Surely no," said Mr. Smith, sipping his water with an inquiring air.
It is a pity I am already married," added Amarinth, sipping his coffee with a deliberate grace.
I wish I could find a few sixpences," said Madame Valtesi slowly, and sipping her tea with her usual air of stony gravity.
On the lawn he found Lady Locke sitting alone, sipping her coffee in a basket chair.
After sipping maté and rum for half an hour we settled down to discuss a plentiful supper of roast and boiled beef and mutton, with great basins of well-seasoned broth to wash it down.
We all sat together in the social kitchen, sipping maté; I taking little part in the conversation, which was all about horses, scarcely even listening to what the others were saying.
When evening came we were all wide awake, and sat till a very late hour round the fire we had made in the hollow, sipping maté and conversing.
One evening I was in the camp seated beside a large fire and gloomily staring into the flames, when the other men, who were occupied playing cards or sipping maté, hastily rose to their feet, making the salute.
Blas, or Barbudo, as we called the giant, was seated on a logsipping maté.
During the night all the men took their departure, for in the morning, when I went into the kitchen, I only found the old woman and Alday's wife sipping bitter maté.
After the boy was despatched for the things and my horse taken care of, we sat for half an hour in the kitchen sipping maté and conversing very agreeably.
I found him confined in a large empty room built apart from the house; he had been provided with a maté-cup and a kettle of hot water, and was sipping his bitter beverage with an air of stoical indifference.
A gay company of twelve or fifteen people were gathered under the corridor, some sipping maté, others sucking grapes; and when we came on the scene a young lady was just finishing a song she was singing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sipping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
