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swill

[swil] / swɪl /




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“Both properties swill be solely in his name.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Today, we publish swill because we cannot get anything better – lest we risk going to prison.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2024

In private, Bach seeks out good bottles of red wine — bad ones he calls Brühe, a German word for swill — and enjoys the card game skat.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2021

He was the ideal man to restore the club’s values, to swill out the toxicity.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2020

“Look at the swill he feeds me: black bananas they can’t sell in the market.”

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

Attorneys and detectives who swilled martinis at Forlini’s long before its young customers were born dropped by to hug staff members goodbye.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022

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

“Seeing as your boy is so young, and El Jefe has been pardoning most minors . . .” He swilled his drink around so the ice tinkled against the glass.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

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 in his ninth, and final, life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

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

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

Kingfisher Meadows was all rain-stained walls, dripping bird tables, wet gnomes, swilling ponds, and shiny rockeries.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell


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