CUP in a Sentence

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For CUP, below is one of 278 sentences:
I had but to drink the cup, to doff at once the body of the noted professor, and to assume, like a thick cloak, that of Edward Hyde.

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 Meanings and Examples of CUP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
cup
 n.  a small, round container, often with a handle, used for drinking
 n.  a bowl-shaped container
Classic Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1  He had handed her a cup and a racquet--that was all.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
2  The wild child, afloat once more on the tide of the old man's benignity, looked over her coffee cup at Giles, with whom she felt in conspiracy.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
3  His face showed it; and Isa, not knowing what to say, abruptly, half purposely, knocked over a coffee cup.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
4  Very delicately William Dodge set the cup in its saucer.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
5  And held her cup out to be filled.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
6  Mrs. Manresa half-way down the Barn had gulped her cup of tea.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
7  "Swallows," said Lucy, holding her cup, looking at the birds.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
8  As if the play had jerked the ball out of the cup; as if what I call myself was still floating unattached, and didn't settle.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
9  He had given her a cup of tea at a tennis party; handed her, once, a racquet.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
10  This brought them to the fireside, where the easy-chair was drawn cosily up, and the tea-things stood ready to the sitter's elbow, the very sugar in the cup.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
11  I had but to drink the cup, to doff at once the body of the noted professor, and to assume, like a thick cloak, that of Edward Hyde.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
12  The creature struggled, struck her, seized her by the hair; but Rachael had the cup.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
13  She held the cup in her hand even now.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
14  Pledge me in a cup of wine, Sir Templar," said Cedric, "and fill another to the Abbot, while I look back some thirty years to tell you another tale.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
15  Wamba presently appeared to urge the same request, observing that a cup after midnight was worth three after curfew.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
16  He is drinking with a cup and saucer.
17  The cup is a cherished trophy of the company.
18  Mathew picked up the cup and sipped his coffee.
19  Her cup clattered in the saucer.
20  A cup fell down to the ground.
21  Poison is poison though it comes in a golden cup.
22  He was hurled out of the hotel for stealing a silver cup.
23  A cup of coffee will refresh you.
24  After work she relaxed with a cup of tea and the newspaper.
25  Gordon dropped the cup and it broke.
26  I gratefully took the cup of coffee she offered me.
27  I'd like another cup of coffee.
28  Sheila won this cup in the school squash championship.
29  Tomato soup is my cup of tea.
30  I think I'll just refresh myself with a cup of tea before I go to meet the children.