1.   Bill Gates quaffs Diet Coke like James Bond sips dry martinis.

2.   He sipped his martini, belted out the Sinatra hit, then told of his plans to start a lounge act.

3.   On the weekends they like to go out on their boats and sip their martinis and not have a crowd.

4.   Pumped, Mike looks at a woman coolly sipping a martini, imagines her as a cowering rabbit, then walks over and gets her phone number.

5.   Sipping their martinis, the tall man and the woman in sunglasses said nothing of The City That Was.

6.   Some sipped martinis on a rooftop terrace.

7.   Skip the eggnog and sip a martini to this instead.

8.   They frolic on the beach and sip martinis on the terrace, their love heightened by the backdrop of an endless playground.

9.   They sat in pumpkin-colored leather chairs over low tables sipping apple martinis, pale green with slivers of Granny Smith at the top.

10.   Was he sipping a martini and thinking the astronaut a little foolish to be taking such a risk?