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
With a gimlet eye and a surprisingly girlish laugh, Vera is cantankerous, impatient, intensely private, unapologetically disheveled and utterly glorious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
His Napoleon views the world with a gimlet eye and firmly compressed lips.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
After having my first cucumber gimlet made with fresh lime — drinking a pedestrian rusty vodka and cranberry or a God awful screwdriver seemed completely ridiculous.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2023
He looked them all over with a gimlet eye.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
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 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
Now it was proposed to replace the cleats which had been knocked off; and persons ran in haste to Peter Goelet's hardware store, in Hanover Square, and returned with a saw, hatchet, gimlets, and nails.
From "Evacuation Day", 1783 Its Many Stirring Events: with recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale by James Riker
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 William MacLeod Raine
Why are we ever gimleted By empire's irony?
From Citadel by H. R. van Dongen
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 Rupert Hughes
There's them that can't see yit ,' and he gimleted me with a fierce eye.
From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Rudyard Kipling
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 William MacLeod Raine
"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 Margaret Pedler
What's the old man up to, gimleting me in the eye like that?
From Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford
“Can’t seem to find out,” admitted the landlord, and the young man bestowed on Brophy an expansive grin which was a comment on the latter’s well-known penchant for gimleting in search of information.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day
Blake's eyes, gimleting to her soul, were shot with a sudden fire as he, too, leaned a little over the table.
From Back to God's Country and Other Stories by James Oliver Curwood
"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 Jackson Gregory
