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How to use guzzle in a sentence

20 example sentences · verb, noun

Guzzle means to drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto. Example: “This car just guzzles petrol.”

Examples of guzzle by meaning

verbTo drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.

  • Some are wearing Santa hats, some have been drinking only six or seven hours after last stopping, guzzling away, topping up their levels to reach pie-eyed delirium.2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football

verbTo consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.

  • This car just guzzles petrol.

verbTo flow copiously; to spray out.

  • Blood guzzled from the wound.
  • The barrel guzzled out beer from the hole.

nounDrink; intoxicating liquor.

  • Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown

More sentences with guzzle

  • That department guzzles up most of our operating budget.From the entry guzzle up
  • Kyle guzzled down an entire six-pack.From the entry guzzle down
  • Those latte macchiatos I guzzled to stay alert while hopping time zones?2017, Kristin Rockaway, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Traveling the World: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Center Street, Hachette Book Group, →ISBN…. From the entry latte macchiato
  • He popped the tab and guzzled noisily, wiping his mouth with the palm of his hand.2007, Michael Blair, The Dells: A Joe Shoe Mystery, Toronto: Dundurn Press, page 132. From the entry Molson muscle
  • Most of the guests were out on the front lawn, guzzling away, real bucketheads.1992, Lee Grove, Drowning, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry buckethead
  • Then all present guzzled escapingly, putting behind them the relationship of their host and hostess.1978, Brian Victor Bell, Paper Tiger: Prose Fictions by Five Writers, page 117. From the entry escapingly
  • “I want to see how people who come here hold themselves and their drinks,” he explained slurrily, guzzling his own.2009 April 19, Leanne Shear, “O.K., So It’s Not That European”, in New York Times. From the entry slurrily
  • Already giving out under the heat or the sheer oppression of numbers, they guzzle mineral water like there were no tomorrow.1998, David M Thomas, chapter 6, in Anger’s Violin, Dingle, County Kerry: Mount Eagle Publications Ltd., →ISBN, page 114. From the entry like there were no tomorrow
  • He guzzled shamelessly, pushing food into an overstuffed mouth, his eye glazed to all intrusion on a gastric debauch.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 68. From the entry overstuffed
  • See, the way they done it was, they′d hold up the stubby and the donkey would just guzzle it down, like there was no tomorrow.2009, Bill Marsh, Great Australian Stories: Outback Towns and Pubs, published 2011, unnumbered page. From the entry stubby
  • Survivor reaches as many as 28 million viewers who watch contestants win a new Pontiac or guzzle Mountain Dew after scaling an arduous cliff.2006, Jack W. Plunkett, Plunkett's Entertainment & Media Industry Almanac 2006. From the entry arduous
  • She had also forgotten both diet and protocol as she joined Sven in guzzling large cokes, practically inhaling fries and gravy, and rounding off the meal with double malts.2014, Dee Disheau, Love in the Sand and the Snow, page 26. From the entry inhale
  • You can try telling the hate mongers, “Stop guzzling down the Haterade,” but the best approach is to make the most of your own life by proving them wrong.2009 February 10, Dilara Hafiz with Yasmine Hafiz and Imran Hafiz, The American Muslim Teenager's Handbook, New York: Athenium, →ISBN, →OL. From the entry haterade
  • Yes, the vicar came home early and we ate artichoke and asparagus and guzzled champagne, but that was just saying Whoopee doo!' and throwing hats in the air.2009, John Brown Contract Publishing, Waitrose Food Illustrated, page 60. From the entry whoopee doo
  • It was a raw, violent, guzzling saturnalia that spilled obstreperously through the woods to the officers' club and spread up into the hills toward the hospital and the antiaircraft-gun emplacements.1961, Joseph Heller, chapter 34, in Catch-22. From the entry saturnalia

Meaning of guzzle

  1. verb To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
  2. verb To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
  3. verb To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.

Full definition of guzzle

Questions about guzzle in a sentence

How do you use guzzle in a sentence?
Guzzle is used as a verb and noun. For example: “This car just guzzles petrol.”
What is a short sentence with guzzle?
“Blood guzzled from the wound.”
What does guzzle mean?
Guzzle means to drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: guzzle (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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