How to Use swill in a Sentence

swill

1 of 2 verb
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  • 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, 6 Feb. 2013
  • When the sun is blazing, beers are swilled on golf courses, boats and patios across the country.
    — Greg Trotter, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2018
  • These clubs can all afford to indulge such whims, such is the money swilling around the Premier League.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
  • China is the world’s largest beer market by consumption, where a hearty 45.7 billion liters of suds were swilled last year.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2019
  • 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, 6 July 2018
  • There’s even a full-page drawing of a cherubic Bacchus swilling wine from a bottle while peeing.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Will the little god-king son of Odin learn to be anything more than a mead-swilling hot head running from adventure to adventure?
    — Jason Johnson, The Root, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Not enough water, and the guaiacol won't bubble up into the nostrils of your whiskey-swilling patrons.
    — Jenna Gallegos, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Locals and visitors hung off the bows, swilling mimosas.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 8 July 2019
  • The days of Rebel Blue Volvo wagons swilling gasoline and squirting oil into spinning turbos may be about to end.
    — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 22 June 2017
  • He's also known for having epic fashion shows, complete with beer-swilling models and rappers like Cam'ron Giles and Pusha T on the runway.
    — Andrew D. Luecke, Esquire, 16 Feb. 2015
  • Comey-watching, beer-swilling patrons filled the inside bars and outdoor patio.
    — Samantha Mendiguren, Fox News, 8 June 2017
  • My coffee-swilling colleague, Phillip Valys, gave me a terrific tip.
    — Doreen Christensen, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • To Western brewers who've tied their ambitious growth strategies to the beer-swilling habits of the Chinese, the costs are beginning to come into focus.
    — Adrian Croft, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Consumption of their brews has surged by two-thirds over the past five years, figures from GlobalData show, even as overall beer-swilling declines.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • 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, 30 June 2017
  • 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, 30 June 2017
  • The new Soviet elite continued to wolf haute cuisine with the same élan as their vodka-swilling Czarist predecessors.
    — Jim Kempton, Orange County Register, 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, 11 Dec. 2018
  • Out of the titular land marched five goofily costumed men, swilling pints at the local pub and traipsing through the Cronulla sand dunes in fake mustaches and business suits, all to an irresistible flute melody.
    — Bryan Rolli, Billboard, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Charlotte’s sipping Champagne, while Carrie’s swilling double vodkas on the rocks.
    — refinery29.com, 6 June 2018
  • Colbert had perhaps the most fun with that, recruiting Christine Baranski to play Collins’s disgruntled, wine-swilling wife.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 15 Feb. 2017
  • The beer-swilling rapper’s looks have a uniquely boisterous yeehaw quality: think Nudie suits in every color of the rainbow, complete with floss-thin bolo ties.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The 4th-century philosopher Hypatia, a stardust milkshake-swilling burnout who now goes by Patty (guest star Lisa Kudrow), warned them that their brains would eventually turn to mush, like hers.
    — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Sweeten with restraint: Byrd, who grew up in iced-tea-swilling Georgia, said Southern sweet tea originated when tea was very expensive.
    — Becky Krystal, charlotteobserver, 12 June 2018
  • Rod Crawford has heard plenty of firsthand accounts of spider-swilling slumberers.
    — Annie Sneed, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2014
  • Your standard maternal protagonist is not dropping a trail of pacifiers behind her, swilling goblets of red wine the minute her rug rats are in bed, and secretly vaping in the linen closet?
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 14 May 2018
  • Combined with Childers' vivid lyrics and captivating storytelling, Saturday's beer-swilling, foot-shuffling crowd was having a blast.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Rasmussen may be a swaggering, beer-swilling veteran, but she and Duvall—a Christian family woman and workaholic who’s about a decade younger than her ad hoc partner—aren’t cookie-cutter badass lady cops.
    — Time, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Predictably, they were not eaten, but the bubbly was swilled enthusiastically.
    — Booth Moore, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2017
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swill

2 of 2 noun
  • I don't know what's in this swill, but I know that I'm not eating it.
  • We were forced to use 40 yuan to buy fast-food which was just like swill.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Coffee has become more than just a drink, having moved from the instant swill our parents drank to high-end gourmet sips.
    — Debbie Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • But there’s always the chance you’ll be bunked near that guy who listens to music without headphones and swills from a hidden flask.
    — Britt Kennerly, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Brady isn’t training on crap food and chemical sugar swill.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2021
  • But most feature amps blasting music to throngs of thousands who dance, kiss and swill booze in a crush of celebration.
    — NBC News, 25 Sep. 2020
  • One of the mocktails is called a Cape Canaveral Caprese and forces you to stir your cocktail with a Caprese salad and then eat the tomato, basil, and ball of cheese while sipping on some wheatgrass swill.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2021
  • 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, 25 May 2018
  • It’s like nothing happened; no animals were starved or tormented or left to survive on maggots and snails and swill.
    — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Counterfeit alcohol can range from bottom-shelf swill being sold as top-shelf booze to mixing in toxic methanol.
    — Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Up until a few years ago, brandy was categorized into two camps: bottom-shelf swill and baller-preferred Cognacs.
    — Kate Dingwall, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • The challenge lies in making something better than rotten-berry swill, a feat that generally requires a hands-on approach.
    — Kyle Stock, latimes.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • 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, 9 July 2018
  • There are private suites, lie-flat beds, caviar courses, vintage Champagne (not that blended swill), on-board lounges, and entertainment systems that are a binge-watcher’s dream.
    — David Denicolo, Allure, 27 June 2017
  • On the first floor, swill drinks at a 26-seat cocktail bar or a 12-seat raw bar; upstairs, find a dining room with an open kitchen and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Trinity Church, plus another bar and fireplaces.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2021
  • Kids strung ropes across sidewalks to trip people in the dark, tied the doorknobs of opposing apartments together, mowed down shrubs, upset swill barrels, rattled or soaped windows, and, once, filled the streets of Catalina Island with boats.
    — Lesley Bannatyne, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Orlando City swill feature a mix of veteran and new players with Mauricio Pereyra leading as captain, a role he was officially given earlier this week.
    — Mike Gramajo, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Feb. 2022
  • I don't know what's in this swill, but I know that I'm not eating it.
  • We were forced to use 40 yuan to buy fast-food which was just like swill.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Coffee has become more than just a drink, having moved from the instant swill our parents drank to high-end gourmet sips.
    — Debbie Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
  • But there’s always the chance you’ll be bunked near that guy who listens to music without headphones and swills from a hidden flask.
    — Britt Kennerly, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Brady isn’t training on crap food and chemical sugar swill.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2021
  • But most feature amps blasting music to throngs of thousands who dance, kiss and swill booze in a crush of celebration.
    — NBC News, 25 Sep. 2020
  • One of the mocktails is called a Cape Canaveral Caprese and forces you to stir your cocktail with a Caprese salad and then eat the tomato, basil, and ball of cheese while sipping on some wheatgrass swill.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2021
  • 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, 25 May 2018
  • It’s like nothing happened; no animals were starved or tormented or left to survive on maggots and snails and swill.
    — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Counterfeit alcohol can range from bottom-shelf swill being sold as top-shelf booze to mixing in toxic methanol.
    — Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Up until a few years ago, brandy was categorized into two camps: bottom-shelf swill and baller-preferred Cognacs.
    — Kate Dingwall, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • The challenge lies in making something better than rotten-berry swill, a feat that generally requires a hands-on approach.
    — Kyle Stock, latimes.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • 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, 9 July 2018

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