"They said to me, 'These raked stages were traditions for hundreds of years,' " the actress said, sipping chardonnay in her hotel.

There's nothing like sipping chardonnay in the Chardonnay wine region in France.

She decided to go out on her wraparound porch, and sit on the swing, sipping chardonnay, alone with her thoughts, for a spell.

Ms. LuPone, sipping chardonnay in a midtown restaurant after the rehearsal, smiled enigmatically.

Because for all the unattached adults sipping chardonnay and Bellinis of a summer evening the atmosphere at Mars Hill was more like that of summer camp.

At a trendy nouvelle Vancouver restaurant called Seasons, overlooking the beautiful harbor, the two leaders sipped chardonnay, ate Dungeness crab ravioli and broiled salmon and talked business.

Next door to Store No. 5, at Brewster's, a wine shop, Donna Weathers, a co-owner, said she had been sipping chardonnay with a friend when they heard what sounded like a car smashing into one of the brick pillars.

We think of men shopping for lingerie with their secretaries out of casual lust and women sipping chardonnay with their lovers out of a deep, poetic unhappiness.

He headed into the club and spent the next hour and a half sipping chardonnay, waiting for his eternally late charge to show.