31.   Dallasite Erykah Badu, regally dressed in a turban and sipping tea, sings about finding lovers in her next lifetime or choosing her friends like picking fruit.

32.   Diners smoke water pipes and sip tea in tile-lined courtyards around quiet fountains.

33.   Does Al sip herbal tea?

34.   Gibbs sipped iced tea.

35.   He is an unlikely renegade, this courtly, balding man who sips tea from gilded teacups and favors sober suits and measured words.

36.   He was not even invited to spend his days sitting around sipping tea.

37.   He sips tea through the gap in his bottom teeth, then softly recites their accomplishments.

38.   He spoke in English from the depths of an easy chair, sipping herb tea.

39.   His guest sat sipping tea from fragile canary-yellow porcelain cups painted with yellow and red flowers, a wedding gift to his mother.

40.   I conducted the interview while lying on a couch sipping tea.