swill
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By the end of the movie Swayze’s "cooler" has stopped a JCPenney department store from ruining the town’s all-American tanginess, or whatever, and heads off to spruce up some other fetid swill hole.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2024
That this incendiary swill is so well-received by his audience — if not by skittish or principled advertisers — makes me wonder: Do 4 million Americans really approve?
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2020
He was the ideal man to restore the club’s values, to swill out the toxicity.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2020
At the time, American coffee culture was so much diner swill and Maxwell House.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 30, 2019
“Bring something for this old lady, hey? Nice stuff. Not the swill these buggers drink.”
From "A Girl Named Disaster" 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
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
A singer was dancing on the stage, and people swilling from paper cups clapped to the rhythm.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2016
Kingfisher Meadows was all rain-stained walls, dripping bird tables, wet gnomes, swilling ponds, and shiny rockeries.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
