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UK
/sˈɪp/
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[ US /ˈsɪp/ ]
[ US /ˈsɪp/ ]
VERB
-
drink in sips
She was sipping her tea
NOUN
- a small drink
How To Use sip In A Sentence
- People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
- The snowy dome of Fujisan reddening in the sunrise rose above the violet woodlands of Mississippi Bay as we steamed out of Yokohama Harbour on the 19th, and three days later I saw the last of Japan — a rugged coast, lashed by a wintry sea. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
- The gossip columnist was paid to chronicle the latest escapades of the socially prominent celebrities.
- As a youngster growing up a small Mississippi town, Bob Dudley was a swimming prodigy with one of the speediest backstrokes in the state. New BP boss Bob Dudley 'doesn't need to fake his empathy for the Gulf coast'
- An unspecified and unlimited amount of investors' money is siphoned off in fees to at least a dozen different agents, from administrators to brokers. Times, Sunday Times
- My ringworm worried her more than the swarms of rumors the local gossips were stirring.
- She sipped from her glass and glanced sideways at me. Times, Sunday Times
- Remember that we also know that in many body systems there are quasiparticles which act very much like normal particles.
- Complicated cross-shareholdings in the keiretsu style are typical in Asia, where controlling families and their cronies siphon much wealth away from shareholders.
- This is not just gossip, incidentally; he publishes this detail in the programme. Times, Sunday Times