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

That in drinking from that beaker I am sipping like a fly.'

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.

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 James, Henry

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 Fenn, George Manville