swilling

present participle of swill

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of swilling The designers threw a party themselves, filling the ballroom at Palazzo Visconti di Modrone with a spiffy crowd of mannequins swilling Champagne, chatting at the dinner table and generally whooping it up. Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2025 Dale Soules gives a hilarious, scene-stealing performance as the beer-swilling mom. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swilling
Verb
  • Scheming girlfriends, questionable business partners, a fleet of lawyers and consultants gorging themselves on fees and a whole lot of other jockeying around Sumner Redstone’s fortune and his business empire.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Embrace that cozy energy by visiting a pumpkin patch, sipping cider, wearing sweaters or wandering through a charming small town to channel your inner Gilmore.
    Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Beverage aficionados will enjoy sipping at the many mountainside NC wineries or tasting brews at Sideways Farm.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Users voted each day to decide which brown bears at Katmai National Park — who are busy feasting on salmon to pack on pounds for winter — deserve the top spot.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • His broken but healing jaw didn't stop him from feasting and gaining hundreds of pounds this summer.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • So just fixing my diet, drinking a lot of water, stretching, moving every day, doing the right movements.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2025
  • To paraphrase Fight Club, fighting becomes the reason to keep your nails short, to order salad instead of fries, and to stop drinking on weeknights.
    Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 2 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

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“Swilling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swilling. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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