sup
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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
Deen Biasa, a roadside spot owned by a Muslim Indian whose specialty is sup tulang, halal mutton soup.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2019
“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
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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
Early arrivals supped on chilled golden beet soup before an entree of king oyster mushroom “scallops” with mushroom risotto, brussels sprouts and carrots.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2020
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
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
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In overnight towns, we made a habit of supping at churches, which offered hospitality and dinners of pasta, lasagna, chicken.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
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
The 12-seat, low-ceiling private dining room beckons with botanical wallpaper and wood rafters that let you pretend you’re supping al fresco.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2022
This was the modern-day equivalent of supping from Mr Bannon’s gilded skull.
From Economist ● Jan. 11, 2018
Taryn and I hear things, even if no one means for us to—stories of humans sleeping on stone floors and eating refuse, believing themselves to be resting on feather beds and supping on delicacies.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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