Sentence examples for only a cup from inspiring English sources

If you have only a cup, you keep it to yourself.

On the other hand, if you buy a whole head of cauliflower and use only a cup, there's major waste.

Research published in The New England Journal of Medicine says people who drank four or five cups of coffee a day tended to live longer than those who drank only a cup or less.

If you have the time and energy, a nice touch after removing the pears is to reduce the cooking liquid until there is only a cup or so left, then spoon it over the pears at the table.

Normally, Isaac and I would have been embarrassed to sit in one of those cafés for hours, ordering only a cup of tea, but Isaac was feeling victorious, and there was nothing that could shame him.

After a welcome respite at the house of a kind doctor the family make their way out of Russia, and by the time they arrive in New York Harbor, only a cup remains, a vivid reminder of "the bread, salt, love and richness of being together".

He did, and afterward was said to have taken the poet to a fancy restaurant and treated him not only to a cup of good tea but also to a full meal.

She sighed, frustrated, a woman who had had time for only half a cup of coffee that morning.

A few people mentioned that the coffee tasted strange -- Mr. Morrill, his friends said, drank only half a cup.

All the while, at night, with her husband and children in bed and her only companion a cup of green tea, Mrs. Kim was writing.

When he introduced me, he referred to me as the old "Baltimore Bullet," a little-known fact because I only had a cup of coffee with the N.B.A. team during the exhibition season.