swill
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Synonyms for swill
Synonyms: Verb
gorge, gormandize, overeat, pig out
Synonyms: Noun
belt, draft, drag, drink, gulp, nip, quaff, shot, sip, slug, snort, sup, swallow, swig
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Examples of swill in a Sentence
Verb
She watched the water swill around in the bucket. He swilled the water around in the pot. He swilled the floor with buckets of water.Noun
took his daily swill of the foul-tasting medicine I don't know what's in this swill, but I know that I'm not eating it.
Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
The new Soviet elite continued to wolf haute cuisine with the same élan as their vodka-swilling Czarist predecessors. — Jim Kempton, Orange County Register, "Follow the French: A look at the French influence on cuisine around the world," 2 Aug. 2019 Do your wedding dress daydreams include a champagne-swilling afternoon trying on the finest in bridal couture? — Melissa Colgan, Harper's BAZAAR, "How to Shop for a Wedding Dress—When Bridal Salons Aren’t What You’d Expect," 11 Dec. 2018 Tessa Thompson is a great addition as the booze-swilling Valkyrie, and Cate Blanchett has fun slumming as the goddess of death. — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, "We rank every movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from worst to best," 6 July 2018 For those born post-2000, a lot of the data that banks use for identity checks — first pet, first teacher, name of elementary school — is already out there, swilling around cyberspace. — Ann Morgan, Good Housekeeping, "I'm Not Going to Be an Oversharer Mom," 30 June 2017 And what of the bankers who swilled Petrus from the bottle and lit Cuban cigars with hundred-dollar bills burned down to the Benjamins? — Jay Cheshes, Town & Country, "Caviar and Cocaine," 6 Feb. 2013 Dok Kaew House Bar Finding a Bangkok bar suitable for your beer-swilling grandmother just got easier. — Seth Sherwood, New York Times, "Five Places to Go in Bangkok," 11 Apr. 2018 Rod Crawford has heard plenty of firsthand accounts of spider-swilling slumberers. — Annie Sneed, Scientific American, "Fact or Fiction?: People Swallow 8 Spiders a Year While They Sleep," 15 Apr. 2014 Few traditions are more intimately associated with baseball than beer-swilling. — Isaac Stanley-becker, chicagotribune.com, "Inventor who made ballpark beer flow freely dies after being trapped in cooler at Braves stadium," 28 June 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Here’s another for a young father with three school-age kids and a passion for road racing; he was taken out by a sunburned drunk driver with half a 32-pack of domestic swill in her system. — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, "The Troubling Rise of the Ghost Bike," 9 July 2018 In the mid-1880s, urban babies died at an alarming rate, many after drinking so-called swill milk from cows fed with leftovers from breweries and tethered in filthy barns. — Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY, "Got 'Milk!'? Mark Kurlansky's latest food history goes down smoothly," 25 May 2018 The challenge lies in making something better than rotten-berry swill, a feat that generally requires a hands-on approach. — Kyle Stock, latimes.com, "For this start-up, the secret to selling wine online is making it yourself," 19 Feb. 2018 The challenge lies in making something better than rotten-berry swill, a feat that generally requires a hands-on approach. — Kyle Stock, latimes.com, "For this start-up, the secret to selling wine online is making it yourself," 19 Feb. 2018 The challenge lies in making something better than rotten-berry swill, a feat that generally requires a hands-on approach. — Kyle Stock, latimes.com, "For this start-up, the secret to selling wine online is making it yourself," 19 Feb. 2018 The challenge lies in making something better than rotten-berry swill, a feat that generally requires a hands-on approach. — Kyle Stock, latimes.com, "For this start-up, the secret to selling wine online is making it yourself," 19 Feb. 2018 The challenge lies in making something better than rotten-berry swill, a feat that generally requires a hands-on approach. — Kyle Stock, latimes.com, "For this start-up, the secret to selling wine online is making it yourself," 19 Feb. 2018 The challenge lies in making something better than rotten-berry swill, a feat that generally requires a hands-on approach. — Kyle Stock, latimes.com, "For this start-up, the secret to selling wine online is making it yourself," 19 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'swill.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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