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Definition of Sipping
1. sip [v] - See also: sip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sipping
Literary usage of Sipping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Palestine: An Authoritative Account of Palestine Since the Great War by William Denison McCrackan (1922)
"When a European or an American makes a loud sipping noise over his soup or his
drinking, he is said to lack breeding. When an Arab wishes to show politeness ..."
2. The Eternal City by Hall Caine (1902)
"Screamers in the streets were crying early editions of the evening papers, and
the cafes in the Corso were full of officers and civilians, sipping vermouth ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1889)
"On referring to this table it will be seen that the larger number of those who
were relieved by sipping cold water had a low blood-pressure, ie about 14 or ..."
4. The Universe: Or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little by Félix-Archimède Pouchet (1884)
"These puny flies, notwithstanding the agitation of the air, dart back- 46 Sphinx
Galii sipping up Honey. wards and forwards, wheel, rise, sink, and continue ..."
5. Hortus Inclusus: Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to by John Ruskin (1902)
"Here's your letter first thing in the morning, while I'm sipping my coffee in
the midst of such confusion as I've not often achieved at my best. ..."
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