guzzling

present participle of guzzle

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of guzzling The relationship between fandom and physical health isn’t just about guzzling beer, sitting for hours on end or scarfing down hot dogs. Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025 Amangati will be cleaner on the seas than classic, diesel-guzzling cruise ships, too, with a hybrid propulsion system that uses battery power to reduce emissions and improve efficiency. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2025 Eating away the anxiety and pain The relationship between fandom and physical health isn’t just about guzzling beer, sitting for hours on end or scarfing down hot dogs. Aaron Mansfield, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025 The group sees ample opportunity for partnership with some of the denim industry’s leading finishing innovators, who have worked to replace stone-washing techniques—which are polluting and water-guzzling—with lasers to achieve whiskering and distressing. Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2025 But the reality is that data centers are inefficient, guzzling water and consuming huge amounts of electricity. Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025 The Single Moms Club (2014) Perry directs, and takes a minor acting role, in this sweet-natured second-chance-at-life comedy about a group of single moms (Nia Long, Amy Smart, Coco Brown, and Wendi McLendon-Covey) who support one another during weekly white-wine guzzling sessions. Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025 Forget roaring lawnmowers and fuel-guzzling tractors. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2025 Now, with reserves dwindling from a grinding, ammunition-guzzling conflict that shows no sign of ending, a factory that opened in Germany on Wednesday could go some way to replenishing stocks. Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guzzling
Verb
  • Rey laughed and left the deck on the table, sipping on his Kola Champagne.
    Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • All the Phillies players are left with is the memory of watching the Dodgers’ celebration before sipping beers as the sadness settled.
    Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For Slingerland, drinking alcohol and getting drunk are important to human well-being and complex societies.
    Big Think, Big Think, 15 Oct. 2025
  • One of the passengers had shown Matney a cell phone video in which everyone on the boat was drinking and Paul was steering the boat.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One night Icarius got all his friends together for a wine-tasting party that quickly got out of hand and turned into a wine-gulping party.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The pressure is always on the taker, the player standing, gulping, trying desperately not to unload their lunch onto the turf, preparing to do something theoretically simple — kick the ball into the net from 12 yards with only one opponent able to stop them.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At the same time, unlike other artists of the bro-country ilk, Aldean personally refrained from boozing it up throughout the show, waiting to pull out a red Solo cup with a shot of tequila in it until there were just 11 minutes left in a set that ran 97.
    Theoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 23 Aug. 2025

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“Guzzling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guzzling. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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