swill
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Today, we publish swill because we cannot get anything better – lest we risk going to prison.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2024
The choice should not be presented as Champagne or swill.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2020
He was the ideal man to restore the club’s values, to swill out the toxicity.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2020
Most of us drink somewhere between these ideals, of course, adrift in the sea of swill, the plenitude of plonk that defines supermarket wines.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2019
“I don’t know what kind of swill they serve where you live, but no one eats garlic soup in the Starlight Room.”
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
Algal blooms happen when pollution, such as nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizer, swills with warm water.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2019
He was taught to make swills in 1988 by John Barker, who has since died.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2014
Downstairs in the bowels of the auction house, Zachariah Onditi slurps, swills and spits rows of amber liquids in his laboratory with the practiced methodology of a wine master.
From Time ● Jan. 8, 2013
Photograph: Sarah Lee The wicked world of the internet, of course, swills with bile as well as blessedly free information.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2010
Not that Grim ever swills anything stronger than root beer.
From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
Also at the fanzone, Kelly Wood, 39, from North Shields, was wearing a plastic poncho and said she had been swilled with beer when the goals went in.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025
At the western front he found a terrifying beach where fetid water swilled in craters so deep that his men stole lifejackets from cross-Channel ferries to save themselves from drowning.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2018
“I ate pain. I swilled tears. If I could take enough in, I’d have no space left to fit my own,” Phoebe says.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2018
The elites they enriched swilled champagne in the countless cabarets.
From Economist ● Jul. 12, 2018
They swilled the dregs around as Professor Trelawney had instructed, then drained the cups and swapped over.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
Our titular tabby is living a swashbuckler’s life, swilling leche, singing songs, saving towns, raking in the adoration and accolades, when he dies his eighth death, landing him on his ninth, and final, life.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
In its marketing, Patagonia Provisions regrettably echoes the fearmongering of the “clean wine” crowd who would have you believe you’ve been swilling poison all these years.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021
I read you were swilling shots of apple cider vinegar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2021
At one point, the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, turns up to walk Taylor Square with his wife, Lucy, swilling a drink.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2018
Kingfisher Meadows was all rain-stained walls, dripping bird tables, wet gnomes, swilling ponds, and shiny rockeries.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
