Sentence examples for a sip but from inspiring English sources

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"I probably shouldn't even take a sip, but I will".

"I filled an old cider bottle with water and gave each one a sip, but it was a mistake.

My father drank wine and gave us a sip, but who wanted that when you could have Coke?

Try some, little Suzy.' And so little Suzy stands on her tippy toes to get a sip, but before she does a big German Shepherd bounces out of the bushes and rapes her!" In that room, after that pitch, you could have heard, as my father likes to say, a sock drop.

He raised his cup to take a sip, but I knocked it out of his hand before it reached his lips, sending coffee splattering in all directions.

Evaluation of taste consisted of participants taking a sip, but not swallowing, from a cup with 10 ml of orange juice, quinine dihydrochloride at 0.006 mol/L or water.

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And she has opium tea – only a tiny sip, but she is taking a class A drug on television, so hats off for that.

If you don't like it and someone else at the table has a cup, ask to have a tiny sip (but do not finish the drink, they may refill it as per custom), so you don't get insulted for being too much of a 'gaijin' (foreigner).

Perhaps he did have a sip or two, but a quarter million dollars' worth seems ambitious.

Sheikha Naeema lifts her glass to take a sip of water, but the large grey telephone on her desk blinks again, red and insistent.

The philosopher John Searle once told me that reading Nietzsche was like drinking cognac -- a sip was good, but you didn't want to drink the whole bottle.

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