swilled

past tense of swill

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of swilled And as always, players swilled beer out of it in front of cheering crowds at the Elbo Room in Fort Lauderdale. Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025 For live music, Feidiou 2 is a small rebetadiko, or traditional music cafe, known for its melancholic Greek folk music and meze bites swilled down with sharp swigs of tsipouro, a Greek version of grappa. Anastasia Miari, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swilled
Verb
  • The Raiders gorged in a different way, blowing the center market out of the water with a massive, $27 million per year contract for Baltimore’s Tyler Linderbaum and rocketing toward the top of the league in money spent.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
  • This means selling off many of the securities the Fed gorged on in a stair-step of crises over the last 18 years.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2026
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
  • Brian Brobbey and Cody Gakpo feasted off low crosses to each score twice, punctuating this as the World Cup of cutbacks.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 11 July 2026
  • The 2023 Naperville North graduate has feasted as the leadoff hitter for Western Michigan.
    Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
Verb
  • Three years later, censured by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party, and ignored by the press, McCarthy drank himself to death, a broken man at the age of 48.
    Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026
  • On the day of the murders, he was said to have drank more than a quart of vodka.
    Dan Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 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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“Swilled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swilled. Accessed 19 Jul. 2026.

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