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Examples of swig in a Sentence
Noun
can I have just a swig of your lemonade to wash down these french fries?
Verb
the only way he can stay awake at his night job is by constantly swigging drinks containing caffeine
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Prudence Peiffer, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
Kathy passed around the can of Miller Lite and smiled as each person took a swig.
—Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2024
Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
In the fall, workers piled into trucks heading for the collective farms and harvested immense amounts of wheat, afterwards swigging vodka straight from the bottle and dancing in the stubbly fields.
—Marco Hernandez, New York Times, 3 June 2024
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Noun
This is poet Gwendolyn Brooks at her best, stinging sentiment followed by a swig of damning, ordinary detail from the fridge.
—Prudence Peiffer, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
Kathy passed around the can of Miller Lite and smiled as each person took a swig.
—Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2024
Verb
Nearby, volunteer David Walsh ducks beneath Giant Rock to swig ice water in the shade.
—Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
In the fall, workers piled into trucks heading for the collective farms and harvested immense amounts of wheat, afterwards swigging vodka straight from the bottle and dancing in the stubbly fields.
—Marco Hernandez, New York Times, 3 June 2024
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“Swig.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swig. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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swig
1 of 2 noun
: a quantity drunk at one time
swig
2 of 2 verb
swigged; swigging
: to drink in long gulps
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