swill

Example Sentences

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Until then, coffee status was less about the lousy swill in your cup than the place, with its sticky tables and din of philosophical chatter in a haze of cigarette smoke.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2022

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

We were also grateful that we had concluded the dirtiest of chores and had only gotten the evil-smelling swill on our shoes, stockings, feet and hands.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou