swill
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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
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 least he doesn't have to eat this swill anymore.”
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
Algal blooms happen when pollution, such as nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizer, swills with warm water.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 9, 2019
He was taught to make swills in 1988 by John Barker, who has since died.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2014
Downstairs in the bowels of the auction house, Zachariah Onditi slurps, swills and spits rows of amber liquids in his laboratory with the practiced methodology of a wine master.
From Time ● Jan. 8, 2013
Photograph: Sarah Lee The wicked world of the internet, of course, swills with bile as well as blessedly free information.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2010
Not that Grim ever swills anything stronger than root beer.
From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
Also at the fanzone, Kelly Wood, 39, from North Shields, was wearing a plastic poncho and said she had been swilled with beer when the goals went in.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2025
Attorneys and detectives who swilled martinis at Forlini’s long before its young customers were born dropped by to hug staff members goodbye.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
At the western front he found a terrifying beach where fetid water swilled in craters so deep that his men stole lifejackets from cross-Channel ferries to save themselves from drowning.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2018
The elites they enriched swilled champagne in the countless cabarets.
From Economist ● Jul. 12, 2018
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
Our titular tabby is living a swashbuckler’s life, swilling leche, singing songs, saving towns, raking in the adoration and accolades, when he dies his eighth death, landing him on his ninth, and final, life.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
Our titular tabby is living a swashbuckler’s life, swilling leche, singing songs, saving towns, raking in the adoration and accolades, when he dies his eighth death, landing him in his ninth, and final, life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
In its marketing, Patagonia Provisions regrettably echoes the fearmongering of the “clean wine” crowd who would have you believe you’ve been swilling poison all these years.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021
Stretches and meditation come first, followed by swilling oil in her mouth for several minutes “to clean out all the guck and detoxify teeth and gums”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2020
It was hard to watch Dove swilling their meager food, but the way to his heart seemed to be through his stomach.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
