Drink is knocked back, first of pints

Usage examples of sip.

He felt in no mood for conversation, and as he sipped his absinth he let his mind run rather sorrowfully over the past few weeks of his life.

He was sitting in a music hall one evening, sipping his absinth and admiring the art of a certain famous Russian dancer, when he caught a passing glimpse of a pair of evil black eyes upon him.

They had sat on the sofa in front of the fire, talking quietly of many things while he sipped an after-dinner brandy, his favorite.

An old emeritus professor, Doctoran Hildegard, who was famed for his agnosticism, sipped his and announced that he now had evidence of the existence of the Deity.

With a deer rib bone whose end she had hollowed out to make a small depression, she fed him the agrimony concentration in small sips sometime near midnight.

They sipped and exchanged pleasantries for several moments before Ameer got down to business.

For a while the conversation had been lively and friendly, and Ana had sat on her barstool, sipping her Coke and basking in the new ambiance.

Baudelaires and the Squalors sipped aqueous martinis one evening in a living room the children had never seen before.

Her hair maintained its erotic contact with the Arachno, sipping information from his skin to verify what Corvax said.

She took a sip of her wine, then smiled brilliantly at Captain Argosy, Sergeant Rice, and Sergeant Culpeper.

Night had just fallen and Torrance uncorked a bottle of arrack and took a sip.

He sipped from a tin mug of arrack while Sharpe negotiated the muslin screen and then stood to attention beneath the ridge pole.

I have artichokes with Parmesan cheese, just a little bite of the excellent bread, a few sips of red wine, a plate of eggplant and peppers, and gigantic portions of rib steak, chicken, and lamb.

Ducking inside, she found the rider, Berelain, sipping tea with Amys and Bair and Sorilea, all stretched out on bright, tasseled cushions.

Cole took a sip from the next beer as he too watched the young woman with the red bandanna move to the music.