swill

Example Sentences

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Until then, coffee status was less about the lousy swill in your cup than the place, with its sticky tables and din of philosophical chatter in a haze of cigarette smoke.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2022

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

At the time, American coffee culture was so much diner swill and Maxwell House.

From Washington Times • Jan. 30, 2019

He swilled the contents of the Pensieve as Harry had seen him swill them before, much as a gold prospector sifts for gold.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling