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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of swill.

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Examples

  • Surrounded by gold-framed Badsworths, young and old, Sir Morton ate his fried bacon and 'swilled' his tea, with a considerable noise in swallowing, getting gradually redder in the face as he proceeded with his meal.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Surrounded by gold-framed Badsworths, young and old, Sir Morton ate his fried bacon and 'swilled' his tea, with a considerable noise in swallowing, getting gradually redder in the face as he proceeded with his meal.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Surrounded by gold-framed Badsworths, young and old, Sir Morton ate his fried bacon and 'swilled' his tea, with a considerable noise in swallowing, getting gradually redder in the face as he proceeded with his meal.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • The smell of turkey was in the air, and even Estelle, my mother-in-law, had swilled an early glass of chardonnay.

    Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

  • They stop us just before we have a first sip of wine and offer us a thought that can be swilled down with the liquid like a tablet.

    An atheist at Christmas: Oh come all ye faithless 2011

  • A famous roué who played the violin, swilled whiskey, ran after women, and could charm even the most bumptious crowd of voters.

    Suzanne Berne's "Missing Lucile," reviewed by Carolyn See Carolyn See 2010

  • The smell of turkey was in the air, and even Estelle, my mother-in-law, had swilled an early glass of chardonnay.

    Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

  • A famous roué who played the violin, swilled whiskey, ran after women, and could charm even the most bumptious crowd of voters.

    Suzanne Berne's "Missing Lucile," reviewed by Carolyn See Carolyn See 2010

  • So we went to a local pet shop and purchased two live rats which we smuggled in during peak hours in our backpacks and while we swilled a few beers in a booth in the back, ate chicken wings and were generally looked at as scum by our former co-worker wait staff we had a hard time not pissing our pants.

    OpEdNews - Diary: A Farewell to Arms: Why I Left "The Left' 2010

  • So we went to a local pet shop and purchased two live rats which we smuggled in during peak hours in our backpacks and while we swilled a few beers in a booth in the back, ate chicken wings and were generally looked at as scum by our former co-worker wait staff we had a hard time not pissing our pants.

    Printing: A Farewell to Arms: Why I Left "The Left' 2010

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