gimlet
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But the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland keeps a gimlet eye on inflation data, and it has some estimates.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025
His Napoleon views the world with a gimlet eye and firmly compressed lips.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
I said, like a pedestrian, "Sounds gross, like a rare form of snot. Can I order another gimlet with you?"
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023
Still, royal experts said it was inevitable that many Britons would view the coronation with a more gimlet eye this time around.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2023
“I don’t believe that my particular body structure is easily adaptable to that type of device,” Ignatius observed, a gimlet eye fixed upon the rusting stool.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
At the Bellagio, gimlets bloomed with the scent of elderflower liqueur, and in Brooklyn they burned with cinnamon and habanero.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2013
In the third chapter, Marlowe narrates the early flourishing of something like friendship, and Lennox pines for a foreign tradition: We sat in a corner of the bar at Victor's and drank gimlets.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2013
In its cool dark depths are the steaks in a covered dish of honey-ginger marinade, the potato salad and coleslaw she put up after breakfast, and the Rose’s lime juice and vodka for the gimlets.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2010
The cool gimlets and gin slings of the Hong Kong Club were as refreshing as the food of the great hotels was dull.
From Time Magazine Archive
The professor thrust his gaunt face to within an inch of Henry's, his eyes like steel gimlets.
From Henry Horn's X-Ray Eye Glasses by Swain, Dwight V.
It lay, too, in the glitter of the cold eyes that gimleted mine sharply.
From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by Raine, William MacLeod
The chill eyes of Goodheart gimleted into those of his assistant.
From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod
The door opened cautiously a few inches and a pair of close-set eyes in a wrinkled face gimleted Clay.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by Raine, William MacLeod
He gimleted all over the space back of the plate before he finally made out the ball coming to earth many feet in front of him.
From The Dozen from Lakerim by Hughes, Rupert
There's them that can't see yit ,' and he gimleted me with a fierce eye.
From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard
"You said twice, she was nice," put in old man Adams, his bleary, red rimmed ferret eyes gimleting at the stage driver.
From Six Feet Four by Gregory, Jackson
"And did you suppose 'twas true?" demanded Maria scornfully, her arms akimbo, her blue eyes gimleting Miss Caroline's face.
From The Vision of Desire by Pedler, Margaret
Son," he exclaimed, gimleting Wilbur with his contracted eyes; "I have reemarked as how you had brains.
From Moran of the Lady Letty by Norris, Frank
We all sat cross-legged round our meal, and all Laupahoehoe crowded into the room and verandah with the most persistent, unwinking, gimleting stare I ever saw.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
The baroness dictated the letter slowly, with an eye gimleting her daughter all the time.
From White Lies by Reade, Charles
