1.   As she tried to offer a toast, though, the guests kept chattering.

2.   After a night of sipping champagne, hugging Carly Simon, and offering birthday toasts to a White House staffer, the president got a late start Saturday.

3.   After dinner, Pierre pours a special local drink and offers a toast to the ride, our guides and our success.

4.   By tradition the tamada offers toasts every few minutes, and guests drink after each one, often draining their glasses.

5.   Clinton, who offered his toast first, made no mention of his difficulties.

6.   Clinton, his chief of staff, Leon E. Panetta, and Hillary Rodham Clinton offered toasts to one another, to their staff and to the imminent victory.

7.   In offering a toast to his host, the president predicted that Vietnam eventually will become an open society.

8.   In the last Rumpole episode, Rumpole offers a toast to criminals as being essential to the continued employment of himself and his colleagues.

9.   Many toasts were offered to Moe, but his to us was, hands down, the most touching.

10.   Mrs. Clinton offered a toast to the challenges faced by women everywhere.