21.   Some shopkeepers abandoned a time-honored practice and allowed non-customers to use their restrooms, use their phones, and sip cups of water and coffee on the house.

22.   Students can take a break, sip a cup of coffee and visit.

23.   The streets around Sanya are full of them, sitting on the pavement, staring into space, and sipping cups of cheap sake dispensed from vending machines.

24.   In their wooden houses, sipping endless cups of green tea, people gathered around televisions, talking quietly and watching scenes of the rescue effort.

25.   Sipping a cup of milk-whitened tea, Ahmed said he was weary of the relentless feuding.