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A couple, who presumably have been tasting wine all afternoon — and have likely paid anywhere from $350 to $500 per night — look at each other with exasperated expressions.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2018

"No, Henry, but you had better avoid me, for I have been tasting of the tree of knowledge."

From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Savigny, Annie Gregg

She stood nursing her stumpy hands under her apron, watching every mouthful he ate so eagerly that she might have been tasting it herself.

From One of Ours by Cather, Willa Sibert

Really, my dear, I’m afraid that my garden friends and foes have been tasting them all.

From The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias by Cooper, A.W.

But will a man steal, think you, even to supply himself with so delicious a wine as this we have been tasting?

From The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont by Barr, Robert