swill

Example Sentences

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By the end of the movie Swayze’s "cooler" has stopped a JCPenney department store from ruining the town’s all-American tanginess, or whatever, and heads off to spruce up some other fetid swill hole.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2024

In private, Bach seeks out good bottles of red wine — bad ones he calls Brühe, a German word for swill — and enjoys the card game skat.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2021

He was the ideal man to restore the club’s values, to swill out the toxicity.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2020

Most of us drink somewhere between these ideals, of course, adrift in the sea of swill, the plenitude of plonk that defines supermarket wines.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2019

“I don’t know what kind of swill they serve where you live, but no one eats garlic soup in the Starlight Room.”

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer