21.   Retired in Sandown, N.H., he paddled canoes on placid mountain lakes and sipped beers with buddies at backyard barbecues.

22.   She said she and a female friend were sipping beer in a Florida nightclub three years ago when a man sitting nearby sent drinks to their table.

23.   Sipping a beer, I decided the difficult choice here is not which horse to wager on but where to pass the time at the track.

24.   The job was a shock for a man so steeped in Christianity that he had never so much as sipped a beer.

25.   The soldier in an outdated uniform, quietly sipping a beer in the bar.

26.   Thousands of guests sipped beer from a subsidiary, Miller Brewing Co., and strolled by Philip Morris banners.

27.   Traffic was lighter then he expected, so he whiled away three hours sunning himself and sipping cold beer in the bed of his pickup truck.

28.   Unlike the lighter, thirst-quenching beers of summer, these are sipping beers to enjoy over the holidays when socializing with family and friends.

29.   Williams sips his beer.

30.   Young people hang out at scruffy youth hostels like one called Funny Farm sipping beer by the pool, enveloped in pop music and strewn extreme-sports gear.