This engine barely sips the stuff - a notable virtue with California's extra-clean premium fuel running $1.90 a gallon.

Their shot glasses of bourbon were empty and their chasers barely sipped.

She barely sipped at her own neat vodka.

She listened carefully, barely sipping her gin, and when she finally spoke, she surprised him.

He saw that his Chinese host barely sipped at his tiny cup.

She hesitantly spent coin for a glass of ale, which she barely sipped.

He watched as the glass, its contents barely sipped, was set down beside his own.

When she put the tray down on his desk, he barely sipped the coffee before reaching for his cap.

The drink was stale and flat, and Conn barely sipped it.

When a new pot of beer was brought, the king of Bakalah barely sipped it before he passed it to the white man.