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• Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.From the entry dry
• I like gin and tonic as a mixed drink, but I really prefer beer.From the entry mixed drink
• We drink tequila as a shooter, but prefer to sip gin slowly to appreciate the flavour.From the entry shooter
• He fell back relieved into his favourite camelback with a gin and tonic.From the entry camelback
• The students presented a brief minidrama about the invention of the cotton gin.From the entry minidrama
• I felt faint after my fifth gin and tonic.From the entry faint
• She drank gin and tonic by preference.From the entry gin and tonic
• And the new daycap has little in common with the stiff gin of the old-fashioned sharpener.2026 February 23, “Rise of the ‘daycap’: is this the end of late-night drinking?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry sharpener
• Then I'll send out some tweets to help gin up the heat.2023 April 18, “CALLOUS MAN: A Parody of Piano Man by Don Caron and David Cohen”performed by Parody Project. From the entry gin up
• What a gin blossom is literally — what it symbolizes, I suppose, is loss of control.2019, Adam Dolgins, The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names, page 1994. From the entry gin blossom
• Similar to the negroni, the boulevardier features bourbon as the spirit instead of gin for the negroni.2018 September 1, Albert W. A. Schmid, How to Drink Like a Mobster: Prohibition-Style Cocktails, Indiana University Press, →ISBN. From the entry boulevardier
• They were neatly lined up on three shelves between the optics of martini, vodka, whisky and gin.2014, M. P. Wright, Heartman. From the entry optic
• It's better than a yard of satin.' Her expression reflected intimate familiarity with a glass of gin.2014, Richard Gordon, The Private Life Of Jack The Ripper, page 99. From the entry yard of satin
• If you substitute beer for the gin, you've got a mantini.2011 October 11, Ted Stoltz, Universal Serendipity - Paperback, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry saketini
• A couple of thimbles had been taken out of the whisky, the gin and the sherry.1999, Alan Wall, Richard Dadd in Bedlam, and Other Stories, Harvill Secker. From the entry Christmas drinker
• He smells the gin on my breath, and he knows me; he knows I understand.1994, Steve Bosak, South Side Stories. From the entry indepthly
• The manager would refer to “combos” and “gin burglars” as though they were social outcasts.1992, Kay Saunders, Raymond Evans, Gender Relations in Australia: Domination and Negotiation, page 36. From the entry gin burglar
• She was sitting at the hard-currency bar of the Hotel Moscow, sipping gin.1989 May, Priit J. Vesilind, “The Baltic: Arena of Power”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 604. From the entry lady
• I remember as a girl watching Celeste and her bridge gang sneak gin in the afternoons.1978, Rita Mae Brown, Six of One, page 8. From the entry bridge gang
• I drew a deep breath, this time fortunately unmixed with gin and tonic.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry coloratura
• On the bedside table were a bottle of gin, a jug of water, and a glass.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 381. From the entry blearily
• A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's Lime Juice and nothing else.1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, published 2002, page 19. From the entry gimlet
• "If you hadn't been ginned up you wouldn't have fallen down those stairs."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 35. From the entry gin up
• Suddenly he went ricketing down the street, beads of gin breaking out profusely on his forehead.a. 1940, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Homes of the Stars. From the entry ricket
• There ain't any living with her 'less she gets her gin."1938, Norman Lindsay, chapter XVIII, in Age of Consent, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 179. From the entry 'less
• This distilled dry gin is smooth and potent, without excess flavoring or alcoholy taste.1936 June 18, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 88, number 287, St. Louis, Mo., page 5B. From the entry alcoholy
• Mollie Carroll and Randy Thomas, the flower of romance was a gin blossom.1934, Mark Hellinger, The Ten Million. From the entry gin blossom
• Where it leads, and if it's beset with "pitfall and gin", I can't say."1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page xi. 103. From the entry pitfall and gin
• Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys that clicked full of ice.1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 112. From the entry rickey
• "De'il kens," answered Gapey; "gin it binna i' the boddom o' Rob Bruce's wame."1900, George MacDonald, Alec Forbes of Howglen. From the entry binna
• As different types of alcohol were used in place of gin, that began to shift the name too.2011 October 11, Ted Stoltz, Universal Serendipity - Paperback, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry saketini
• It wasn't just the violent Prohibition-era gang wars that were dangerous to Americans drinking homemade moonshine and bathtub gin.2008 December 5, “Top 10 Prohibition Tales: Mortal Moonshine”, in Time, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2012. From the entry bathtub gin
• For a classic silver bullet martini, you simply need to choose your poison—gin or vodka—and add dry vermouth and olives.2007, Sally Ann Berk, Martini Book: 201 Ways to Mix the Perfect American Cocktail, Hachette, →ISBN. From the entry silver bullet
• Can I get you one?” “Ramos gin fizz.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 416. From the entry Ramos gin fizz
• A pink gin is prepared by swirling a few drops of bitters round the glass and throwing any excess away.2000 May 30, Mike Page, “Re: Milk bar [WAS: Re: Great googly-moogly]”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet). From the entry marmite
• A few moments later, we were all sitting around the veranda of the hunters' dining hall, punishing the gin, as usual.1970, Doc Greene, The Memory Collector, page 49. From the entry punish
• I drank gin-and-hot-water to blunt the pain and took Dexedrine to blunt the gin and wrote the piece.1968, Joan Didion, “A preface”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem. From the entry dexedrine
• He was drinking double gins with single Frenches in them.1967, Michael Francis Gilbert, The Dust & the Heat, page 14. From the entry french
• Gin burglars who sneak in looking for lubras are prosecuted.1964, Keith Willey, Eaters of the Lotus, page 150. From the entry gin burglar

Meaning of gin

1. noun A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
2. noun Gin rummy.
3. noun Drawing the best card or combination of cards.

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Questions about gin in a sentence

How do you use gin in a sentence?

Gin is used as a noun, verb and conjunction. For example: “Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.”

What is a short sentence with gin?

“She drank gin and tonic by preference.”

What does gin mean?

Gin means a colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.