gimlet
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But the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland keeps a gimlet eye on inflation data, and it has some estimates.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025
His Napoleon views the world with a gimlet eye and firmly compressed lips.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
If you order a gimlet and they offer you, Roses, then you should leave the bar, maybe even the neighborhood, because that is ridiculous as it is gross.
From Salon ● May 8, 2023
The script hews closely to the version that Dickens himself toured, with passages of prose narration that cut the goose-fat sentimentality with keen wit and gimlet detail.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
But he is black-haired and gold-skinned and though his eyes are the same pale gray as the Commandant’s, there is no trace there of the gimlet flatness that defines most Masks.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
In the third chapter, Marlowe narrates the early flourishing of something like friendship, and Lennox pines for a foreign tradition: We sat in a corner of the bar at Victor's and drank gimlets.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2013
At the Bellagio, gimlets bloomed with the scent of elderflower liqueur, and in Brooklyn they burned with cinnamon and habanero.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2013
In its cool dark depths are the steaks in a covered dish of honey-ginger marinade, the potato salad and coleslaw she put up after breakfast, and the Rose’s lime juice and vodka for the gimlets.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2010
The cool gimlets and gin slings of the Hong Kong Club were as refreshing as the food of the great hotels was dull.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dash it, he was staring hard at me, his beady eyes boring like gimlets, don't you know, and his little shriveled face all puckered up.
From The Haunted Pajamas by Francis Perry Elliott
There's them that can't see yit ,' and he gimleted me with a fierce eye.
From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Rudyard Kipling
The lady gimleted us again one by one with her blue eyes.
From New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by E. (Edith) Nesbit
The chill eyes of Goodheart gimleted into those of his assistant.
From A Man Four-Square by William MacLeod Raine
It lay, too, in the glitter of the cold eyes that gimleted mine sharply.
From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by William MacLeod Raine
The door opened cautiously a few inches and a pair of close-set eyes in a wrinkled face gimleted Clay.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by William MacLeod Raine
"And did you suppose 'twas true?" demanded Maria scornfully, her arms akimbo, her blue eyes gimleting Miss Caroline's face.
From The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler
"You said twice, she was nice," put in old man Adams, his bleary, red rimmed ferret eyes gimleting at the stage driver.
From Six Feet Four by Jackson Gregory
Son," he exclaimed, gimleting Wilbur with his contracted eyes; "I have reemarked as how you had brains.
From Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris
Blake's eyes, gimleting to her soul, were shot with a sudden fire as he, too, leaned a little over the table.
From Back to God's Country and Other Stories by James Oliver Curwood
The baroness dictated the letter slowly, with an eye gimleting her daughter all the time.
From White Lies by Charles Reade
