Sentence examples for was sip from inspiring English sources
verb
To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
"At age 16, all I could do was sip a soft drink and hang around trying to act like a big cheese while hoping to catch a dance with one of the 'flappers' who came downtown from uptown boarding schools," he later recalled in "21: Every Day Was New Year's Eve: Memoirs of a Saloon Keeper" (Taylor Publishing, 1999), which he wrote with H. Paul Jeffers.
We assume the standard etiquette was sip, sip, pass. .
And he was sipping a Diet Coke.
A local businessman was sipping a beer, listening.
Soon I was sipping at a hundred straws.
ED (COOKIE) JARVIS was sipping a glass of water.
His vest was draped around his neck, and he was sipping water from a bowl.
My companion was sipping a second Manhattan with rye, not bourbon, per his initial request.
Heavily made up, with tattooed eyebrows, she was sipping a cup of rum-spiked tea.
He was sipping tea when he heard screams, and several of his children ran in.
The first helicopter thundered overhead at 8 05 a.m., as Christine Reekie was sipping her morning coffee.
