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[suhp] / sʌp /


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Jimmy Adams, who oversees the pub, says the idea behind the venue was to create a place where people could meet regardless of whether they wanted to sup upon alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks.

From BBC Mar. 1, 2024

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

How can I best sup port my girlfriend?

From Slate Feb. 4, 2021

Some morsels are just too delicious for journalists and pundits not to sup on.

From New York Times Nov. 2, 2018

He had not yet told his father he had asked friends to sup that night.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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

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

However, she added: “There are clearly questions to be answered about the various relationships that developed afterwards and whether the UK supped with a sufficiently long spoon.”

From The Guardian May 31, 2016

The main room of the inn, where we supped, was enormous, with a wide fireplace and half a dozen massive tables.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

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

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

This has left me ill-equipped to deal with the pair of rats we spied a few weeks ago supping on bird seed that had spilled under our backyard feeder.

From Washington Post Jul. 23, 2016

The Friar was unwillinge to believe that I had met a talking Ferret and did ask me whether I had been supping of Brother Boniface’s Turnip Wine.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling




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