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
No detail is too small for Caro’s gimlet eye, which is currently trained on finishing Volume 5.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 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
It was as though a sharp little gimlet had rim into the solid congealed mess of Emily Brent's brain.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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
He peered sharply at a small bit and held it in his fingers, while he bent his face close to the pan, his eyes two gimlets boring into the contents.
From The Ranch at the Wolverine by B. M. Bower
The chill eyes of Goodheart gimleted into those of his assistant.
From A Man Four-Square 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
Why are we ever gimleted By empire's irony?
From Citadel by H. R. van Dongen
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
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
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
What's the old man up to, gimleting me in the eye like that?
From Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford
We all sat cross-legged round our meal, and all Laupahoehoe crowded into the room and verandah with the most persistent, unwinking, gimleting stare I ever saw.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
"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
