supping
IPA: sˈʌpɪŋ
noun
- The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper.
- (obsolete) That which is supped; broth.
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Examples of "supping" in Sentences
- Quote of the pub: “Oh yes, that really is supping from the appley teet!”
- How relish you the idea of supping with Captain Lawton, this evening, Mr. Birch? "
- But the idea of supping with the Duke raised him just now into manifest complacency.
- Since my first sighting of Don Draper supping a scotch I've been hooked on US TV drama.
- We did not much relish the idea of supping and sleeping in such a place -- but necessity has no law.
- "Do you mean that you are not accustomed as I am to invalidism, and hardly like the notion of supping in bed as an introduction to strangers?
- His guilelessness seemed to say that there was nothing to see here, folks, just Ranger Rick supping on half-digested chunks of low-grade meat.
- The water cures any disease, so they say, and at any time a crowd is found around its magic brim filling jars, bottles, and pitchers to take home, or supping from the copper bowl that is chained to the iron bars that cover the well.
- However, she succeeded in pouring out and carrying into the parlor, without accident, three platefuls of that excellent condiment which formed the frugal supper of the family; but which they ate, I grieve to say, in an orthodox southern fashion, with sugar or treacle, until Mr. Lyon -- greatly horrified thereby -- had instituted his national custom of "supping" porridge with milk.
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