quaff
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Unruly salt-and-pepper hair in a long quaff, round glasses and broad smile give James Ortiz the look of a whimsical inventor, the kind that hides away in his workshop crafting extraordinary artifacts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
Anxious Americans, or at least the ones who regularly quaff Coke Zero, will be the judge.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2021
Wines made from the picpoul grape tend to be refreshers — crisp, easy to quaff and simple.
From Washington Post ● May 22, 2020
Rich guys like him can quaff as many $1,000 bottles of Chateau Lafite Rothschild 2009 as they want, with twice as many calories per cup as Cherry Dr. Pepper.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2019
I'm in the midst of taking a quaff of my ale and I nearly spit it all over the table.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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Patent absurdity, of course, as much then as now — no matter how many 3D-printed organs we churn out, how long we extend our telomeres, nor how many quaffs of plasma we down.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2023
In other Trump paintings on view, Saul paints the president’s blonde quaffs floating around a canvas.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2020
Before the quaffs of Champagne, though, I had to do some legwork.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2016
Other popular quaffs of the day had names such as “Rattle-skull and Bombo, Cherry Bounce and Whistlebelly Vengeance.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2015
The winged vallance of your eyes advance Shake off your canopied and downie trance: Phœbus already quaffs the morning dew, Each does his daily lease of life renew.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan
I drank tea, quaffed vitamins, eschewed sudden movements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
And Ken No. 2 star Liu commented on his doll’s perfectly quaffed hair: “I’m a little jealous to be honest.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
The Blonds partnered with Preciosa for the crystals seen in the show, Christian Louboutin for the custom shoes and Oribe Hair Care for the quaffed wigs, Blond said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Scientific protocols were carefully followed, Rowley said, and no one quaffed mules until the research was over.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2022
Chiswyck cackled, quaffed his ale, and wiped the foam away with the back of his hand.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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They were chatting with each other on the Signal app as they chowed down on steaks at the Palm while Hegseth white-knuckled it through everyone else at his table quaffing their Martinis and Negronis.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025
As cockle-warming as it is to imagine characters we know and love seeing out their days quaffing sangria and playing Articulate!, it obviously wouldn’t make for a very good film.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2020
These days, the investor/beekeeper soaks the view in early evenings from the farmhouse porch, quaffing his Sierra Nevada beer and watching the Purple Martins, guinea fowl, hungry foxes and, of course, his buzzing bees.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2017
As for Clinton, last seen in Youngstown on Saturday night, talking to entrepreneurs, then quaffing a beer during a local bar's early St. Patrick's Day event?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2016
One night a full-grown lion with a fine mane came to cool his dry throat in the lake, and was quaffing water, when he felt his nose seized by something that rose up from below.
From My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)
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