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

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

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

Apparently the trader had no qualms about drinking swill himself.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer