quaffed

past tense of quaff

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of quaffed More than 17,000 wines from 58 countries were entered into the awards, before being supped and quaffed by 245 judges in a rigorous two-week process held in London. Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 17 June 2026 Six England players, including the beloved Paul Gascoigne, came into the studio to lend their vocal talents to the track and much Champagne was quaffed, in quantities that were directly proportional to how disinterested the athletes were to be there. Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 12 June 2026 The pair also famously visited The Plough at Cadsden in Buckinghamshire, a pub near Chequers, the country residence of British prime ministers, where Xi quaffed a pint of Greene King IPA (Indian Pale Ale). Ian King, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quaffed
Verb
  • As the two young women talked, the thirty-five-year-old man sipped the icemelt at the bottom of his glass.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
  • Inside, Rodríguez Castro sipped an Aperol spritz, then moved on to a California red wine not on the menu.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Verb
  • The company behind the beer Sam Adams told NBC Boston its Boston Taproom ran out of Samuel Adams Boston Lager one weekend because of the Tartan Army, which drank four times as much beer as is consumed on a typical four-day weekend.
    Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 19 July 2026
  • Instead, James drank wine, entertained recruiting pitches and served up a whole lot of nothing.
    Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • That public has continually widened its gullet and gulped.
    Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Many years had passed since Caity Maple, a Sacramento councilmember, gulped down orange juice.
    Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 10 May 2026

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“Quaffed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quaffed. Accessed 23 Jul. 2026.

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