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Meanings of swilling in English
Synonyms
Examples for "gulping"
Examples for "gulping"
1
You're hardly the one to talk, the way you're gulping it down.
2
The moment passed, and Saleh came back to himself, gulping at air.
3
Fear gripped the men when they saw Charybdis gulping down the sea.
4
He gave a gulping sob every so often, and his shoulders shook.
5
He said, pausing a moment over gulping his inevitable bread and cheese:
1
It was calculated, in every particular, to induce gluttonous gorging and guzzling.
2
These Nubans were incorrigible-theydrank to excess, he'd seen children guzzling marissa.
3
The highest-margin products automakers sell are gas-guzzling, high-emissions SUVs and light trucks.
4
The battery could also finally break Africa's dependence on fuel guzzling generators.
5
Those who are able to afford it sit guzzling beer or boyaloa.
Usage of swilling in English
1
The swilling cocktail of hormones in my system lurched at the thought.
2
He toyed with his glass, swilling around the remains of his drink.
3
Can't go two hours without swilling back a pint of freezing-cold Tennents?
4
What threat to Aelon is a god who spends eternity swilling ale?
5
They had grown accustomed to the incomprehensible banter of these coffee-swilling lawyers.
6
The water was swilling back and forth with each uneven roll.
7
In bed at ten, knackered, and my dreams involved lager-swilling priests on bikes.
8
So does this mean we should all start swilling Two-Buck Chuck?
9
Their opponents retired, presumably intimidated by the sheer groundswell of Union Jack-swilling fervour.
10
But the Yankee's capacity for swilling tea and coffee was prodigious.
11
Put your light out and turn in, you confounded swilling pig-you!
12
Hank was entirely soaked, and coffee-colored water was swilling around his pants' legs.
13
The grating was gone, and two seamen were swilling away the remaining blood.
14
Not what they were used to every bloody day, not some beer-swilling redneck.
15
Ken Clarke is a brandy-swilling, cigar-chomping favourite of both the left and the right.
16
Nobody said too much about Bangladeia and its blood-swilling geriatrics.
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Swilling across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common