Party staples

Usage examples of dips.

This old woman dips bread into a cup of buttermilk for her lunch and eats slowly.

Down there, she dips her feet in the chilly waters of the South Atlantic, home of the perpetually restless albatross.

Mum dips the cows, deworms them, brands them with our brand, feeds them up on the Rhodes grass until their skins are shiny and they are so fat it seems as if they might burst, and then sends them on the red lorry into Umtali, to the Cold Storage Corporation, to be sold as ration meat.

Some days, Dad drives all day with maps to find the old, decaying dips and kraals.

An early spring cold snap that dipped below freezing had hardened slush, turned rivulets into treacherous slides, and trampled mud into uneven bumps and dips, making it difficult to walk.

Huge hordes of big-horned bison covered hills and dips with a living, bawling, restless, undulating mass that left raw, trampled earth behind.

The front edge was uneven, accommodating minor local differences in terrain, and a climb to the top would have revealed dips and ridges, seracs, and crevices quite extensive on a human scale, but in relation to its own size, the surface was uniformly level.

They angled down like the scratchings of some gigantic beast to the river, all dips and hollows that radiated from off the ridge.