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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Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2025
Guy Fieri even popped out to take a swig from Hagar’s bottle.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 May 2025
Then Lochlan ends up swigging a protein shake from the toxic Bosch, and finding his unconscious body is what shocks Timothy into clarity.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Between swigs of cold water in the team’s sweltering kitchen on the Ben Barber campus after a recent practice, student Kaden Walker said the group was confident.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2025
Guy Fieri even popped out to take a swig from Hagar’s bottle.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Verb
The four-decade veteran of As the World Turns made her exit after just over a year on the series in appropriately grand fashion, by swigging a teacup full of crushed sleeping pills in a January episode.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 May 2025
Then Lochlan ends up swigging a protein shake from the toxic Bosch, and finding his unconscious body is what shocks Timothy into clarity.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Swig.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swig. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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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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