How to use sup in a sentence
23 example sentences · verb, noun, interjection
Sup means to sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon. Example: “A: hey – B: hey, 'sup? – A: nm u?”
Examples of sup by meaning
verbTo sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
- And as she supped her tea she smiled discreetly at him over the brim.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 80
- On market days the farmers would come in before going home - Tysons and Lindsays and Birketts and Longmires and Boows and Dawsons - and their dogs would lie in heaps on the flags while they themselves supped Gerald's ale.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 60
nounA sip; a small amount, of food or drink, water or rain.
- We’re sisters in a sort and I’ll take Louie home with me and give her sup and shelter.a. 1936, J[oseph] S[mith] Fletcher, “Assault of Hannah’s Castle”, in The Mill House Murder: Being the Last of the Adventures of Ronald...
- A long, long sup of beer flowed gratefully down his gullet.1936, George Orwell, chapter 8, in Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- The hands touch B upon the head, give him sup from a cup and wipe his brow with a cloth, and finally embrace him as he slumps back down upon his desk.2010, Graley Herren, “Beckett on Television”, in S[tanley] E. Gontarski, editor, A Companion to Samuel Beckett, Blackwell Publishing Ltd...
nounSuperintendent.
- The sup won't stand for it."1932, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine - Volume 91, page 64
- Perez, the radio sup said, "Everything checks out OK, Sarge.2011, M. Thomas, Not Today, →ISBN, page 212
- The sup is a retired county sheriff's deputy.2012, Caroline Court, Rescuing Park Ranger Billie, →ISBN, page 55
More sentences with sup
- A: hey – B: hey, 'sup? – A: nm u?From the entry nm
- Sup guise? — What's up, guys?From the entry guise
- "Hear all, see all, say nowt. Eyt all, sup all, pay nowt. An if ivver tha does owt fer nowt, mek sure tha does it fer thi sen."From the entry sen
- 'Faith, friend,' he says, 'that was a nasty fall for a fellow that has supped weel.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry faith
- Some other playgoers are supping on the day's pottage at the backbenches nearby, some with a glass of reddish everyday plonk.2006, CJ Becker, The Dream of America: As Seen from Saracen's Head Tavern, →ISBN. From the entry backbench
- The substituend item bhis is one of the twenty-one case suffixes (sUP or vibhakti) introduced as a set in Pāṇ. 4.1.2.1994, Pieter C. Verhagen, “Structure and Method”, in A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet, volume II, Brill, page 227. From the entry substituend
- If rain was syrup, we'd all be gorged, but there aint enough sup to make a housefly floop his snoot."1990, Donald Harington, The Cockroaches of Stay More, →ISBN, page 191. From the entry gaum
- The sixth (ṣaṣthī́) sUP triplet is used to indicate that the expression after which it is introduced is the substituendum (sthāné-yogā).1989 [c. 450 BCE], Pāṇini, translated by Sumitra M. Katre, Aṣṭādhyāyī, page 19. From the entry substituendum
- Moi aussi j’ai chaud, et je possède cette supériorité ou infériorité sur vous que je m’embête d’une façon gigantesque.1953, Gustave Flaubert, translated by Francis Steegmuller, “To Ivan Turgenev”, in The Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert (Great Letters…. From the entry unredden
- I′m forty and Tyrene says if I keep supping the tinnies at this rate it won′t be long before I′m forty stone!2011, Calvin Wade, Forever Is Over, page 378. From the entry tinnie
- It is defined as the midpoint between both Foramina parietalia (for typical venous Emissaria connecting veins of galea with Sinus sagittalis sup.).1993, Wolfgang Seeger, The Microsurgical Approaches to the Target Areas of the Brain, page 56. From the entry obelion
- Having supped the season's fill of absinthean and dopish horror, the playgoer may now, if he likes, take the milk-and-watery way to bed.1946, James Agate, The Contemporary Theatre, 1923-1944-45, volume 3, page 220. From the entry absinthean
- Then sez Mattha: "Ah've felted a bottil Aback o' yon cam-dyke near-by, An Ah lay at a sup wad be welcome," An t'rist on us stevvoned oot: "Aye!1963, Bill Cowley, A Cleveland anthology: dialect poems from Cleveland and the North Yorkshire Moors. From the entry stevvon
- We supped and camped at the very edge of the cliff, quenching our thirst with two bottles of Apollinaris which were in one of the cases.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry apollinaris
- It is hard to deny the fact that there are still many social historians who would rather sup with the Devil than indulge in number-crunching exercises or style themselves cliometricians.1998, Dot Jones, “Foreword”, in Statistical Evidence relating to the Welsh Language 1801-1911, page xiii/2. From the entry cliometrician
Meaning of sup
- verb To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
- noun A sip; a small amount, of food or drink, water or rain.
- verb To eat supper.
Questions about sup in a sentence
- How do you use sup in a sentence?
- Sup is used as a verb, noun and interjection. For example: “A: hey – B: hey, 'sup? – A: nm u?”
- What is a short sentence with sup?
- “Sup guise? — What's up, guys?”
- What does sup mean?
- Sup means to sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sup (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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