swill
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Go all the way back to meat packing or swill milk at the turn of the 20th century; go to the fight against big tobacco.
From Salon ● May 2, 2025
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
At the time, American coffee culture was so much diner swill and Maxwell House.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 30, 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
“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
Last spring, I descended into the basement of a suburban home with two-dozen people and swilled fluid from a plastic cup.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 8, 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
I read you were swilling shots of apple cider vinegar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2021
Belying the stereotype of patrician yachtsmen with jaunty caps swilling drinks and getting tan, ocean sailing can be extraordinarily dangerous.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2018
This was intentional vulgarity of the highest order: like swilling Cristal from a red Solo cup or low-riding in a Bentley.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2018
It was hard to watch Dove swilling their meager food, but the way to his heart seemed to be through his stomach.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
