swill

Example Sentences

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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

Mr. Bortolomiol believes Prosecco has become “a generic name” for any swill with bubbles and was no longer worth defending — from Prosek or anyone else.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2021

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

He swilled the contents of the Pensieve as Harry had seen him swill them before, much as a gold prospector sifts for gold.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling