gin
Example Sentences
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Technology, geopolitics, and economics have aligned to gin up excitement on Wall Street about the potential swirling above the clouds.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
Silly but not sappy, “Project Hail Mary” doesn’t gin up much suspense over whether anything bad will happen.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
Then he and Sterling K. Brown re-enacted the famous “of all the gin joints” piano scene between Rick and Sam from “Casablanca.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
After World War I, Woodrow Wilson barnstormed the country to gin up support for a treaty that would have seen the U.S. join the League of Nations.
From Slate • Mar. 10, 2026
I thought of the doddering old war veterans who sat along the gallery in front of the cotton gin and spat their tobacco and bored everybody with the same stories they’d been telling for decades.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing gin
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 4
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"We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
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