sip
verb (used with object)
to drink (a liquid) a little at a time; take small tastes of.
am sipping
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present progressiveof sip (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I’m told to do everything for my neighbor that I would do for myself, yet here I am sipping wine and doing nothing for that weeping child on the TV, my neighbor.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
Here I am, sipping espresso and reading The Economist, deciding which company to buy today.
From Time Magazine Archive
In short you affect me as gulping down great mugfuls of experience, while I am sipping that compound out of a liqueur-glass not a quarter full.
From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by Henry James
That in drinking from that beaker I am sipping like a fly.'
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings
Some evening, perhaps, when there is no danger, and I am sipping my coffee over a quiet pipe, I shall be happy to listen to you.”
From Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer by George Manville Fenn
