supping

[ UK /sˈʌpɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking
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How To Use supping In A Sentence

  • The outraged Father was supping noisily from his medicine, oblivious of the head's disapproving frown. THE MANANA MAN
  • Melvyn Bragg would look great here leaning up against the bar supping a pint. FALLEN WOMEN
  • But the idea of supping with the Duke raised him just now into manifest complacency. The Cloister and the Hearth
  • How relish you the idea of supping with Captain Lawton, this evening, Mr. Birch? The Spy
  • However, she succeeded in pouring out and carrying into the parlor, without accident, three platefuls of that excellent condiment which formed the frugal supper of the family; but which they ate, I grieve to say, in an orthodox southern fashion, with sugar or treacle, until Mr. Lyon -- greatly horrified thereby -- had instituted his national custom of "supping" porridge with milk. Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.
  • The height o 'nonsense is supping soor milk wi' an elshin. The Proverbs of Scotland
  • It is a strange sight as there are some playing at dominoes just by the side of us and a little further on they are playing at cards and on the other side they are supping their gruel.
  • The water cures any disease, so they say, and at any time a crowd is found around its magic brim filling jars, bottles, and pitchers to take home, or supping from the copper bowl that is chained to the iron bars that cover the well. Six Months in Mexico
  • We did not much relish the idea of supping and sleeping in such a place -- but necessity has no law. Fast in the Ice Adventures in the Polar Regions
  • After supping our drinks and relaxing in the lounge we were taken into the restaurant.
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