1.   An elegant young woman sat at the next table, sipping a cocktail.

2.   Instead of playing the fiddle, they could sip cocktails and play poker while nuclear war devastated the world outside their bunker.

3.   Lying in the sun, sipping cocktails -- it would be paradise!

4.   And indeed, after we climbed a staircase to the Neptune Pool, elegantly dressed guests were milling about, conversing quietly in small groups and sipping cocktails.

5.   And sure, you could schlep all the way to Key West to sip cocktails at one of its famous bars.

6.   As they sipped their cocktails, the lighting on the pyramid changed its color, like some sort of giant mood ring.

7.   He sipped his cocktail, let the joystick go still, and watched her black and white image.

8.   It begins in Singapore with a bunch of snooty Brits and Aussies sipping cocktails and dissing the approaching Japanese in terms that fall just short of the rabidly racist.

9.   On Wednesday at Hollywood Park, he sat at his table in the turf club, sipping cocktails and scanning the tote board.