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

The choice should not be presented as Champagne or swill.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2020

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

His greasy hair hung in his face, he smelled like swill, and he’d just saved my dog.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck