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

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

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