Sentence examples for a weak cup of from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a weak cup of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a beverage, particularly coffee or tea, that lacks strength or flavor.
Example: "After brewing for only a minute, I ended up with a weak cup of coffee that barely had any taste."
Alternatives: "a diluted cup of" or "a bland cup of".

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Whenever she's onstage, she turns a weak cup of theatrical treacle into a brimming beaker of ambrosia.

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Allow the coffee's foam ring to close and let the coffee rise up to brew a weaker cup of coffee.

It's like drinking watered-down red wine or a weak cup coffee -- utterly pointless.

Most species are bottom-dwellers and have a weak suction cup formed by the fusion of their pelvic fins.

Any business traveller who has perched in a dimly-lit airport lounge while balancing a cup of weak coffee and an important conference call appreciates a well-equipped airport.

It's tempting to say that she and Mr. Penn are miscast, but the movie is such a slapdash affair that one is grateful for the odd, inventive Actors Studio inflections they bring to it, like a jolt of bourbon in a cup of weak tea.

But before they do they should offer voters a real alternative, not just a cup of weak tea whose only good quality is that it's not Republican cyanide.

Gone are the days when festival beer meant shelling out a tenner for a cardboard cup of weak lager.

Until then it's spending the afternoon shouting at traffic wardens then home for a cup of weak tea, and a good hard think about what he was.

Brew a cup of weak tea using 1 teaspoon clove powder in a small mug full of boiling water.

Perhaps a cup of weak tea with lots of sugar may help.

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