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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Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
Typically, firms keep 20% of the remaining profits, and BlackRock’s program is designed to share a swig of that profit with senior executives, based on their individual contributions to the specific funds.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2026
Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
The coach is swigging from a beer bottle, visibly drunk even from across a hockey rink, and roundly berating his players.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Kilgore leads his cavalry into air battle to the strains of Wagner, taking out combatants in between swigs of coffee.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
Typically, firms keep 20% of the remaining profits, and BlackRock’s program is designed to share a swig of that profit with senior executives, based on their individual contributions to the specific funds.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2026
Verb
But in the 1950s, Detroit was still about blue-skying massive, gas-swigging machines and way-out concept cars.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
The coach is swigging from a beer bottle, visibly drunk even from across a hockey rink, and roundly berating his players.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026
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“Swig.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swig. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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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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