1.   We laughed and joked, Ichiro trying the whiskey, me sipping a little sake.

2.   At first, I wondered if I had sipped hot sake for breakfast instead of coffee.

3.   At the burial or placement of the ashes, family members may sip sake and undergo a traditional purification ceremony.

4.   Sitting in the simple restaurant eating sashimi and sipping sake, he acknowledged the award with the mixture of angst and gallows humor that seems to stamp his personality.

5.   They sipped sake, eyes fixed on the deejay spinning his turntables from a perch in an aluminum-covered space.

6.   At a nearby tent, other protesters sipped sake by a fire to fight the chill.

7.   Sake was sipped from tiny dishes and the guests headed for the reception at a swanky hotel nearby.

8.   Sitting under a makeshift awning on a recent wintry night, watching sumo wrestling on TV and sipping sake, he seemed almost cheerful.