How to Use sippy cup in a Sentence

sippy cup

noun
  • Sorry kids, stick to your sippy cups of scotch, this is adult tea.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit, 2 Mar. 2017
  • And right behind me was my daughter’s sippy cup, and the chef was like, ‘That’s perfect!
    Karen Chernick, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Susannah unscrewed the lid of a doll’s pink plastic sippy cup and held the cup out to Mr. Rosen.
    Erika Check Hayden Brittainy Newman, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2022
  • My cooler was stuffed with bubbly waters and beers to share—and a sippy cup for my kid.
    Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The takeaway: Bath toys and sippy cups need to be replaced after awhile.
    Jessica Leigh Mattern, Woman's Day, 14 June 2016
  • The post shows a picture of a young girl in blue footie pajamas, drinking from a red sippy cup.
    Molly Stellino, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Underneath the cart were unopened, take-and-toss sippy cups.
    Anne Ryman, azcentral, 28 June 2018
  • Schmidt’s young daughter brought over her sippy cup to try to help her grandfather.
    Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Plenty of what appeared to be date-nighters and at least one young diner drinking from a sippy cup.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
  • And people actually state -pump your milk and put it in a sippy cup !
    Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • In the cute snapshot, the youngster was wearing a light-pink dress and clutching what appeared to be a sippy cup, sporting a head full of blonde curls.
    Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Late night, guests were transported from the mill to the couple’s villa at the Andaz with sippy cups filled with lilikoi vodkas.
    Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 13 July 2018
  • Share your Fork the Patriarchy kale quinoa bowl and your Universal Childcare sippy cup (@lololevine and @audreygelman, feel free to steal that one!).
    Lauren Smith Brody, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Apr. 2019
  • The pint-sized line includes three must-have items for school: a collapsible water bottle, a sippy cup, and a sandwich box.
    Lindsey Greenfeld, PEOPLE.com, 31 Aug. 2021
  • It is meant to be used in place of a sippy cup to promote better language development.
    Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Inside, there was a red sippy cup on a wooden dining table.
    Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Wearing a soft pink sweater, Roys talks about her work banning toxins in baby bottles and sippy cups.
    Jill Filipovic, The New Republic, 29 May 2018
  • That favorite storybook or sippy cup takes some of the edge off of being thousands of miles from friends and family.
    Jocelyn Newman, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Wine in a sippy cup is simply not an option for many parents with a history of substance abuse.
    Jessica Grose, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2020
  • My daughter’s only complaint is that there are no cupholders for her sippy cup in her Tesla.
    Chris Kornelis, WSJ, 6 June 2018
  • Researchers also found fecal matter on more than 25% of the sippy cups tested.
    Jessica Leigh Mattern, Woman's Day, 14 June 2016
  • Within a year and and a half, the company said, its plastic straws would be replaced with sippy cup-like lids—which, yes, will also be made of plastic.
    Emily Atkin, The New Republic, 10 July 2018
  • Police reportedly found a sippy cup or bottle inside the home that contained the syrup found in the child's system.
    Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Lest you be overwhelmed by the cuteness, there's a heartbreaking side to that discovery: Bronze and Iron Age parents buried their dead infants with their clay sippy cups.
    Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Grab a drink from the bar at the base—served in plastic sippy cups for safety—then prepare for a dizzying experience aboard this sky-skimming Ferris wheel.
    Jessica Voelker, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Aug. 2018
  • Inside the boy’s sippy cup at the home, authorities discovered residue of oxycodone.
    Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • At Jayden’s funeral, Je’Shawn, who turned 4 that same week, looked inside the casket, touched his little brother’s face and asked his mother to fill Jayden’s sippy cup.
    Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Walmart and Target offer T-shirts, swimsuits, sippy cups and ugly Christmas sweaters covered with it.
    Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2019
  • The brand offers up diapers for newborns and nipple balm for nursing moms, as well as sippy cups and vegan kids' vitamins.
    Alyssa Newcomb, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Made of a durable polyester (which kind of feels like a combo of plastic and canvas), this animal toddler backpack comes with side pockets perfect for a sippy cup or slim water bottle.
    Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 16 June 2022

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