How To Use Cup of tea In A Sentence
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All he wanted was a cup of tea and a sit-down.
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I bundled Lucy up in a blanket and made her a cup of tea.
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Cup of tea or coffee with skimmed milk.
The Sun
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Do you feel like a cup of tea?
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It advises salesmen to talk round reluctant customers over a cup of tea.
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He had a cup of tea and then turned his attention to the report.
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Pensioners can have a cup of tea and a biscuit for 5p and all the gardeners roll up to dunk their digestives in the afternoon sunshine.
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We just sat down and had a cup of tea and chewed the fat for way longer than we should have.
The Sun
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I bet he crooks his little finger when he drinks a cup of tea '.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I think the point of a cup of tea is more for the liquid refreshment element when you are on a site.
The Sun
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One of the tea ladies revealed that her employer had an unusual taste in beverages as he enjoyed his cup of tea with a spoonful of honey.
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These are perfect after a heavy meal when you just want a nibble of something sweet to go with a cup of tea.
Times, Sunday Times
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One thing that is manifestly true is that it is only in caffs that you can find a decent cup of tea or a cappuccino.
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Perfect with a cup of tea after a hectic day on track.
The Sun
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He limited each person to one cup of tea.
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It is healthier to sip a cup of tea several times a day rather than down it all at once.
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Outside McMinn's door on Ingram Street, Pally Gray said, `I wouldn't mind bein ' asked in for a cup of tea, Keith.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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I'm dying for a cup of tea.
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I'll also have a cup of tea and a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice.
The Sun
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Cup of tea or coffee with skimmed milk.
The Sun
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The prospect of a hot cup of tea anywhere with a radiator was just too tempting.
Times, Sunday Times
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These jokers that have been floating around these boardrooms, they waddle off to their next cup of tea or whatever and that's it.
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A cup of tea would be most acceptable.
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One gave me a hug and a cup of tea from a Thermos flask.
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Scones with jam and cream cost £1.70 as did a special of a toasted teacake with a cup of tea or coffee.
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We just sat down and had a cup of tea and chewed the fat for way longer than we should have.
The Sun
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I put down my half full cup of tea back onto the tray and poured some milk into it, swirling it around.
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He had a cup of tea and then turned his attention to the report.
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There is time to make a cup of tea while they do it.
Times, Sunday Times
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I eventually got up and was given a cup of tea and a bacon buttie.
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A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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These are perfect after a heavy meal when you just want a nibble of something sweet to go with a cup of tea.
Times, Sunday Times
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He made her a cup of tea, which she claimed made her light-headed and dizzy.
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There's no coffee - would you like a cup of tea instead?
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Sometimes they come in busloads and make it upstairs for a cup of tea before being personally guided round the garden or through the museum.
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Kathy gave me a cup of tea with sugar in to help calm me.
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There you are. A nice cup of tea.
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One small study found that drinking a cup of coffee while eating lowered the amount of nonheme iron absorbed from the meal by 39 percent; a cup of tea reduced absorption by 64 percent.
Q&A: Are coffee and tea iron-blockers?
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A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Our Hundred Days in Europe
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The only difference being that they invariably refuse to bring me the requested cup of tea.
Times, Sunday Times
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After a cup of tea, she felt quite restored.
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You can sip a cup of tea at the tea house and restaurant inside the garden.
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Gulping down a cup of tea, he ate a couple of biscuits, and then shouldering his dustcoat, declared himself ready.
Ultima Thule
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She offered me a cup of tea, but I declined and waited patiently while she unfastened the two locks on the balcony door.
DEAD BEAT
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He called the missis, and they got her into the kitchen and gave her a cup of tea and put her to bed, and she'll never get up again, it seems.
Women of the Country
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A cup of tea made with Ephedra nevadensis, for instance, delivers a dose of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine powerful enough to suppress lactation.
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That cup of tea was just the job.
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Gor blimey, avva cup of tea missus.
The Sun
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At a restaurant near the cross-road we had rice and a cup of tea, and a bowl of the vermicelli soup known as mien, the muleteer and his son sitting down with my men.
AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA
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Pour me out a cup of tea please.
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The raintrees provided a cover of dappled sunlight for guests as they quaffed jam and scones with a cup of tea served in pannikins by women in pinafores and lace caps, all in aid of the 125th anniversary of the Territory's first homestead.
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She made herself a cup of tea, cut bread for toast, beat up eggs with grated cheese in a pan.
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The flight was only two and a quarter hours, which was great, but at that stage, after the multiple beverages, we were like camels in the desert gagging for a cup of tea.
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He poured me a cup of tea.
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How about having a cup of tea?
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What if you want to make a cup of tea or go to the loo?
Times, Sunday Times
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That's just my cup of tea.
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She put a cup of tea down on the bedside table.
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The raintrees provided a cover of dappled sunlight for guests as they quaffed jam and scones with a cup of tea served in pannikins by women in pinafores and lace caps, all in aid of the 125th anniversary of the Territory's first homestead.
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Volunteers also work as hospital guides, or on out-patient departments, meeting patients, helping them get gowned up for an X-ray and offering them a cup of tea.
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Nathan was sitting and thinking over a cup of tea, while Sean was blasting targets in the range.
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After work she relaxed with a cup of tea and the newspaper.
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After unpacking my sleeping bag, toothbrush and kettle, I was gasping for a cup of tea.
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They will signal a passerby in with gestures indicating the offer of a cup of tea or something to eat.
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That protocol almost gives prisoners two lumps of sugar in every cup of tea they want.
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She put a cup of tea down on the bedside table.
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She boiled the kettle again and made a cup of tea with slightly sour milk.
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His slap on the wrist was more like a cosy cup of tea.
The Sun
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Thanks for inviting me, but ballet isn't really my cup of tea.
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This has been as much a part of British life as the cup of tea cooled by the doorstep pinta.
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We must have looked cold because one of her minders came out and asked us in for a cup of tea and a bit of cake.
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His slap on the wrist was more like a cosy cup of tea.
The Sun
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Apart from tears, only time could wear everything away. While feeling is being processed by time, conflicts would be reconciled as time goes by, just like a cup of tea that is being continuously diluted.
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He slipped away from my mother's side, tiptoed across the room and made himself a cup of tea.
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Nicholas leaned over, poured Tachi a cup of tea, pushing it across the tatami, into the oyabun's hands.
FLOATING CITY
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Over a cup of tea, and a damper and corned beef sandwich people swapped stories about Les and what life used to be like in that beautiful part of the Territory.
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We just sat down and had a cup of tea and chewed the fat for way longer than we should have.
The Sun
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Buskers used to be arrested for making a racket for the sake of the price of a cup of tea.
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I check out your web page everyday as apart from a decent cup of tea I miss my Sun newspaper badly!
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Jean came over and handed him a cup of tea and he sat back in stockinged feet.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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AN MP claims the government's backing for putting fluoride in water supplies could be a recipe for murder - with a cup of tea.
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Would you like a cup of tea or coffee?
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The women they selected weren't my cup of tea either.
The Sun
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Her husband broke the news to her, and the couple celebrated by putting the kettle on and sitting down with a cup of tea.
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We sat down and had a natter and a cup of tea.
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When I got home I put it straight on the television and was glued to the set until the end - I didn't even get up to make a cup of tea!
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I'd love a cup of tea, please.
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She put a cup of tea down on the bedside table.
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I fancy a cup of tea.
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He sat on the edge of an unyielding armchair, a cup of tea in his hand.
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So, in one of Henry James's novels, much is revealed when the heroine, out of character, overfills a cup of tea.
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It is said to follow a rather undignified incident involving a flying cup of tea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jazz just isn't my cup of tea - I prefer classical music.
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If shiny fixed grins and singalong tunes aren't your cup of tea, give this a wide berth.
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After work she relaxed with a cup of tea and the newspaper.
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With each cup of tea, deftly prepared, there comes a moment of pause, of stillness, that is otherwise absent from the day.
Gemma de Choisy: Confessions of a Dual Citizen
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To his mortification, his parents would invite doorstepping news hounds into their home for a cup of tea.
Times, Sunday Times
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`I--I'm going to make you a cup of tea', she explained shakily
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But Ireland is no longer the Mecca for tea brands it once was, with the average office worker as likely to have a diet cola drink, or a cappuccino, as a cup of tea at break time.
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By five o'clock, Mrs Grundy has managed, with the connivance of Jack the driver, somehow or other to boil the kettle, and a cup of tea is ready for all who are inclined to partake.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852
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Try as I would, I couldn't seem to make a decent cup of tea, and it even looked odd - a dismal grey instead of a healthy brown.
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Apart from tears, only time could wear everything away. While feeling is being processed by time, conflicts would be reconciled as time goes by, just like a cup of tea that is being continuously diluted.
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There you are. A nice cup of tea.
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Back at this home base, the billies were soon boiling and a cup of tea never tasted better.
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A cup of tea would be very welcome.
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After work she relaxed with a cup of tea and the newspaper.
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A cup of tea a day will keep the dentist's drill away.
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Let him get his own cup of tea.
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As he drank the cup of tea with which his servant supplied him while he was yet in bed, he could not say of himself, teres atque rotundus, as he was wont to do when things were well with him.
The Way We Live Now
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And, to wash it all down, he had a little blue cup of tea, "cambric" of course, quite as his mother would have wished.
Half-Past Seven Stories
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There's no such thing as a cup of tea or coffee - it's served in bowls and it's quite acceptable to dunk your brioche (but in a nice, polite way).
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He might as well walk up to Redall Farmhouse and see if he could cadge a cup of tea there.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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Apart from tears, only time could wear everything away. While feeling is being processed by time, conflicts would be reconciled as time goes by, just like a cup of tea that is being continuously diluted.
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That cup of tea was just the job.
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Indeed, in the midst of gleaming, snorting cappuccino machines, you are hard-pressed to find a decent cup of tea.
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Yea, there was the occasional girl at work that tried to be my friend and gush about boys, but they soon learned that wasn't my cup of tea.
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Sarah stood at the window of the waiting room, a cup of tea in her hand.
A SEASON IN HELL
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Then my wife came in to ask, innocently enough, if a cup of tea would help me to cover the last few feet of wall.
Times, Sunday Times
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She also enjoyed reading the newspapers and neighbours calling in for a cup of tea and chatting about old times.
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But when, for goodness' sake, had anyone ever got excited at the prospect of a cup of tea?
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Today they tackle how to make the perfect cup of tea.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'd love a cup of tea, please.
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After unpacking my sleeping bag, toothbrush and kettle, I was gasping for a cup of tea.
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AVE you ever sailed around Point Grey? asked a young Squamish tillicum of mine who often comes to see me, to share a cup of tea and a taste of muck-a-muck that otherwise I should eat in solitude.
Legends of Vancouver
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Tomato soup is my cup of tea.
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It's hollering and blowing a hooley outside, you're warm and snug in bed, someone's delivered a nice cup of tea with the post and there seems no point in shifting.
Witch Child by Celia Rees
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Electrical input Make yourself a quick cup of tea or coffee with a compact travel kettle.
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You even have it if the remnant of your unfinished cup of tea has been accidentally thrown away by someone else, who's come upon it and thought it unwanted, of no account.
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Breakfast consisted of dry bread and a cup of tea.
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Right now I could do with someone to gently rub the achiness from my shoulders, back and legs; to bring me a cup of tea; to cuddle up against me and keep me warm at night.
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In the heels I was tottering about me kitchen making a cup of tea and flicking my hair about.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anybody too knackered to lift a cup of tea to parched lips can have it intravenously.
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Take 5-20 drops of the tincture in water or one cup of tea to relieve afterpains and tone the uterus.
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Excuse me, guv, could you spare an old man the price of a cup of tea?
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Everyday things have become fiddly, making a cup of tea is a complicated process when I can hardly see.
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There's a trail bar and a cup of tea for everyone, one lump of sugar in each cup.
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Funny enough, the time I met his Da he didn't take a cup of tea.
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We would like you to visit us often and feel free to drop-in and relax with a snack or dessert or a soothing cup of tea and gossip with your friends.
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Jazz just isn't my cup of tea - I prefer classical music.
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I think I'll just refresh myself with a cup of tea before I go to meet the children.
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So we skived off for another cup of tea and I lent him my towel.
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Under a glass bowl there is a cup of tea and a madeleine cookie and the guide explains how Proust as a grown man dipped the madeleine into the tea and recalled his joyous summers in Combray.
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The alarm clock overhead read 5.28, time for a quick cup of tea before his new shift began.
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He joins his parents and siblings for breakfast, basic roti and pumpkin with a cup of tea.
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I bet he crooks his little finger when he drinks a cup of tea '.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Be an angel and make me a cup of tea.
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That's just my cup of tea.
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Please give me a cup of tea.
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Help yourselves to a cup of tea and a chocolate digestive, or we have weak orange squash for the very nervous amongst you.
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I can now also mispronounce sufficient Russian phrases to greet the train staff as I squeeze past them on my way to the restaurant car and to ask Sergei, my carriage attendant, for a cup of tea.
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Sarah, bless her, had made a cup of tea.
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A cup of tea and a chat in the community centre was greatly appreciated.
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But all that the widow of the high Anglo-Indian official said to me was: "Come along, Ruby, have a cup of tea.
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No, I won't give you any money for a cup of tea. Shove off!
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Her mother, in solidarity, burst into tears, whereupon we were ushered into a side room, given a cup of tea and money was found to get us back to the hotel.
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My breakfast is always the same: two pieces of brown toast with slices of banana on top, a cup of tea and an apple juice.
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I would like to take a cup of tea and milk, poached eggs, and one croissant and banana muffi.
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A hot shower and a cup of tea will revive you.
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With the emphasis on leisure in our lives, there is more time to enjoy something home-baked with a cup of tea.
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I check out your web page everyday as apart from a decent cup of tea I miss my Sun newspaper badly!
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They woke the next morning to find mummy gone and a cup of tea in her room.
The Sun
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If there had been a cup of tea and a digestive biscuit on the bedside table, it would have been the perfect way to wake up.
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Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames.
Dave Johnson: China Is Very "Business-Friendly"
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The night comes when she lays unconscious way past dinner time, and he's getting himself a snack when he realizes she is still sleeping, thinks about his meeting that night, thinks he will take her up a cup of tea and then hears the stertorous breathing and shakes her, and his trained hands tremble and almost fail him as he tries to jab the buttons on the phone.
Addicts
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Nothing of my own to show today - busy day with a cup of tea with friends in the morning, then my daytime quilt group and in the afternoon I spent a lot of time reading email and parcelling up swaps and things to go in the post - amazing how much time that can take.
Thursday stuff
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I like the butteriness and sugary crunch of a plain palmier, especially with a cup of tea or coffee.
Toffee Palmiers | Baking Bites
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The only difference being that they invariably refuse to bring me the requested cup of tea.
Times, Sunday Times
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A pensioner said he was physically sick after finding what he believes was a slug in a carton of milk he had already used for his cereal and morning cup of tea.
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From the creator of Lunartik In A Cup of Tea; Matt 'Lunartik' JOnes designed and created the 8 inch tall vinyl retro-licious FORBIDDEN PLANET ROCKET in white (below-left), as well as a "fruitier" LUNARTIKS BANANAS version!
TOYSREVILs I LIKE TOYS
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I had a cup of tea and a bun at four o'clock.
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Would you like another cup of tea?
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And now for a cup of tea, she thought, stepping out to wind a large bath towel around her nakedness.
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This is the second time she has returned for a cup of tea with the midwives who delivered her second daughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Would you like another cup of tea?
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Do you feel like a cup of tea?
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A cup of tea wouldn't go amiss.
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A course of orange squash, roast chicken dinner, trifle and a cup of tea was prescribed to nurse my hangover.
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Scots have always been known for the genuine warmth of their welcome, proffering a dram or cup of tea with the extended hand of friendship.
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A cup of tea would be most acceptable.
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We just sat down and had a cup of tea and chewed the fat for way longer than we should have.
The Sun
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And he did exactly what I'd been trained to do; he sat down and we had a cup of tea at the table out there, a bit of a yarn.
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A pound might not sound like much, but it will buy you a cup of tea in a tea room and that is what tourists would rather spend their money on.
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Not my cup of tea, but I enjoyed the inventive and brilliantly rendered visuals.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the talk there will be a cup of tea and some light entertainment.
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As I stared at my half-finished cup of tea, I felt a certain sense of betrayal.
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Later, I took my mother and the cat a cup of tea and a saucer of milk, respectively.
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Rowena washed the pot and fixed herself a cup of tea.
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Today they tackle how to make the perfect cup of tea.
Times, Sunday Times
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I decided to have a cup of tea and watch England get tonked by India in the cricket instead.
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His success in the United States has been won with How to Speak English, in which he discusses the meaning of the word "chav" with an American friend, and How To Be English, in which he gives step-by-step instructions on how to make a cup of tea.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The message was relayed to me over a cup of tea in Parliament's members' lounge by FW's henchmen, both from not too verligte backgrounds.
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Unable to summon up the courage to venture inside and make myself a cup of tea, I returned to the lounge where Amy was still preening herself.
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An hour later, the repairman had consumed half a cup of tea, thoroughly cleaned the accumulated gunge off the various components of the system and replaced our thermostat.
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I need a cup of tea to relax myself.
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They sent an officer to meet me, and got invited to have a cup of tea with the station commander.
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His mother passed him a cup of tea, which he sniffed at suspiciously.
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It's more like a nice cup of tea - to be enjoyed leisurely and with a degree of reflection.
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Nothing much happens to disturb our peace and, when mayhem comes along, we find that a nice cup of tea soon puts it all in proportion.
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In other news, I have a delicious cup of tea this morning -- Mokalbari Estate East assam from Upton Tea, brewed for four minutes.
Mary mary quite contrary
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The lorry driver pulled into the side of the road and got out for a cup of tea.
