swill

Example Sentences

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Today, we publish swill because we cannot get anything better – lest we risk going to prison.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 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

Eventually I went off to swill out the bowls and hang the food bag.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson