Sentence examples for without a sip from inspiring English sources

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A worldwide economic crisis cannot help places where dinner, without a sip of Champagne or a drop of grand cru wine, can easily run $250 a person or more.

Other days she resisted thirst — waking up, working out, flying to New York, taking a cab to her hotel, doing a few errands, drawing a bath, collecting ice from the machine, all without a sip of water.

Someone sitting quietly under a shady tree will be better off than an explorer caught out in the middle of a blazing desert, but nonetheless they won't be able to survive six months without a sip of water.

She won hands down with "a stack of librarians" and "a plastering of politicians". The evening E. J. and I came for supper, we learned that nothing gets started at 1119 Pinehurst without a sip or two or three of bourbon.

Dr. Timothy D. Stanton, an oceanographer from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., went 18 hours without a sip of water on the day when he hiked a half-mile from the Borneo runway to install his "baby," an automated $40,000 buoy designed to measure small amounts of heat flowing through the waters beneath the ice.

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The sprinter took it, but placed it on the ground without taking a sip.

The bartender handed a Corona to Mr. Lau, who set it on the bar without taking a sip and stepped outside.

He scampered up Maine's highest peak, climbing nearly a mile's rise in three hours without taking a sip of water and barely breaking a sweat.

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida also said he was "impressed" with Ms. Haley and, in a moment of self-deprecation, praised her for making it through the remarks without taking a sip of water.

On one oppressively hot day in the month that the purges began, Cheng's father was made to sweep the school grounds for hours without being allowed a sip of water.

All I know is it was incredibly creepy and confusing and I became so paranoid that I convinced myself there was poison in the coffee I'd bought so I threw it out without even taking a sip.

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