gimlet

But the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland keeps a gimlet eye on inflation data, and it has some estimates.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 19, 2025

His Napoleon views the world with a gimlet eye and firmly compressed lips.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

After having my first cucumber gimlet made with fresh lime — drinking a pedestrian rusty vodka and cranberry or a God awful screwdriver seemed completely ridiculous.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2023

You can’t help but be invigorated by Klein’s intellectual synthesis and dexterity, even as her gimlet eye makes you want to run screaming into the night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

It was as though a sharp little gimlet had rim into the solid congealed mess of Emily Brent's brain.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

At the Bellagio, gimlets bloomed with the scent of elderflower liqueur, and in Brooklyn they burned with cinnamon and habanero.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2013

In the third chapter, Marlowe narrates the early flourishing of something like friendship, and Lennox pines for a foreign tradition: We sat in a corner of the bar at Victor's and drank gimlets.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2013

In its cool dark depths are the steaks in a covered dish of honey-ginger marinade, the potato salad and coleslaw she put up after breakfast, and the Rose’s lime juice and vodka for the gimlets.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 11, 2010

The cool gimlets and gin slings of the Hong Kong Club were as refreshing as the food of the great hotels was dull.

From Time Magazine Archive

O'Mally was like a hunter that has his prey at last in sight, drawn forward to the edge of his chair, his jaw squared, his eyes piercing into Ford like gimlets.

From The Black Eagle Mystery by Geraldine Bonner

It lay, too, in the glitter of the cold eyes that gimleted mine sharply.

From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by William MacLeod Raine

The lady gimleted us again one by one with her blue eyes.

From New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by E. (Edith) Nesbit

There's them that can't see yit ,' and he gimleted me with a fierce eye.

From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Rudyard Kipling

He gimleted all over the space back of the plate before he finally made out the ball coming to earth many feet in front of him.

From The Dozen from Lakerim by Rupert Hughes

You know how unimportant your cuts are in the fall when you know that you can skip classes ten times that year without getting called up on the green carpet and gimleted by the Faculty.

From At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch

"And did you suppose 'twas true?" demanded Maria scornfully, her arms akimbo, her blue eyes gimleting Miss Caroline's face.

From The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler

What's the old man up to, gimleting me in the eye like that?

From Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford

We all sat cross-legged round our meal, and all Laupahoehoe crowded into the room and verandah with the most persistent, unwinking, gimleting stare I ever saw. 

From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Son," he exclaimed, gimleting Wilbur with his contracted eyes; "I have reemarked as how you had brains.

From Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris

“Can’t seem to find out,” admitted the landlord, and the young man bestowed on Brophy an expansive grin which was a comment on the latter’s well-known penchant for gimleting in search of information.

From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day