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- noun Plural form of
sip .
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Examples
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But before long, the drizzle had subsided and a dozen of us were sprawled out in lawn chairs, chugging icy pilsners between sips from a bottle of Jim Beam.
The Pig Event Chris Nuttall-Smith 2010
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He was lounging on a couch and taking occasional sips from a long, slender glass.
the outer alliance makes a ring around the galaxy willowfagan 2009
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His metal body is at his desk taking sips from a coffee cup long gone dry
365 tomorrows » 2008 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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It is like the famous ritual of circumspect sensuality — a couple sitting at a table, one sips from a glass, and then the other takes the same glass and sips from the same spot that the first one used it.
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His insights came in hyperactive bursts between sips from a quart-sized plastic coffee mug.
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His insights came in hyperactive bursts between sips from a quart-sized plastic coffee mug.
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We three will sit ourselves down and have Benedictine sandwiches (yes, with the crusts cut off the bread) washed down in sips with some Benedictine liqueur.
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From its deck we would watch them come from their nests on the soft banks and fill the sky over the river in a pattern of flitting silhouettes in the ocher dusk, and in their hundreds and dozens of hundreds they would hunt the flying insects and dip to drink sips from the oily brown surface.
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My goal is a short comic novel -- kind of a return to the Kafkaesque territory of my still-unpublished second novel The Only Criminal -- that's meant to be read in short sips, much as it was written.
Archive 2005-10-23 2005
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My goal is a short comic novel -- kind of a return to the Kafkaesque territory of my still-unpublished second novel The Only Criminal -- that's meant to be read in short sips, much as it was written.
GHibbs commented on the word sips
Also, 3rd person singular of the verb 'to sip'. 'He should sip all his drinks until his mouth heals.'
October 8, 2011