sup
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Now, there is only three years to go until the pub rises again and thirsty regulars can sup a beer — or two.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
The door has been left ajar, funnelling an icy breeze into the bar where a small group of members sup pints.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2023
How can I best sup port my girlfriend?
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2021
After a screening of the season’s first episode, guests repaired to the nearby Lobster Club to sup on buffets of sushi and pasta.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
“I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you; but I have dined already, and I do not sup.”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Mr McCann added that he and his wife had "supped with the Devil" by working with the Sun in 2011, in order to have the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance reviewed - illustrating the newspaper's influence.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
Some of the riffs, I think, “Hmm, maybe we supped at the same table.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
To the north at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, the campus’ Hillel organization recently welcomed several Ukrainian students to a Shabbat dinner, where they supped on matzo ball soup and deli sandwiches.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2022
I have drunk the legendary Vietnamese coffee and supped the sulphurous vegetable broth on the collapsing sofas.
From The Verge ● Mar. 31, 2018
This evening they had supped on oxtail soup, summer greens tossed with pecans, grapes, red fennel, and crumbled cheese, hot crab pie, spiced squash, and quails drowned in butter.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Robert Jenrick, Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat are hitting the phones and supping breakfast, lunch, tea, coffee, dinner, beer and wine with any Conservative MP with an appetite or a thirst.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2024
Apparently, someone gave him a job fairly soon because within a few chapters Tucci is supping at glamorous restaurants in far-flung locales like Vancouver, Normandy and Reykjavik.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2021
This was the modern-day equivalent of supping from Mr Bannon’s gilded skull.
From Economist ● Jan. 11, 2018
“What I didn’t realize is that supping with them would actually have a broader impact on how the world sees me as a scientist,” he said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2016
Pa didn’t come to dinner that night, said he’d be supping with Mr. Clemson to iron things out.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
