1.   I pour a hot coffee, and sit sipping at it in my kitchen armchair.

2.   They sat sipping their drinks.

3.   They both laughed and then sat sipping their coffee equably.

4.   So what was wrong with her?

5.   In no hurry now, Fabia sat sipping her coffee.

6.   A white-haired little old lady sits sipping tea and watching the Weather Channel describe a ferocious blizzard about to hit her tiny island off the Maine coast.

7.   Earlier that morning, Jean and I had sat up front sipping coffee as we minded the shop for Chuck who was away on business.

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

9.   Orange ribbons with the inscription of the Antiquities Authority ringed the excavation, and two Bedouins sent by the Authority as guards sat sipping tea in a makeshift tent.

10.   The room in which Ms. Kincaid sat sipping her coffee is bigger than the entire house in which she grew up, she said.