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How to use swig in a sentence

23 example sentences · verb, noun

Swig means to drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff. Example: “That sailor can swig whisky with the best of 'em.”

Examples of swig by meaning

verbTo drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.

  • That sailor can swig whisky with the best of 'em.

nounA long draught from a drink.

  • take a swig of whisky
  • And he took the last swig out of the pint.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
  • He pours it full of OJ and takes a huge swig, swallows, and repeats.2014, Michael Griffo, Starfall (The Darkborn Legacy), New York, NY: Kensington Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 26

More sentences with swig

  • He unstoppered the little flask and took a few swigs.From the entry unstopper
  • I drink a swig of it and get to work zip-tying lights inside of trusses.2012, Brianna Kayleen, One's Story, →ISBN. From the entry zip-tie
  • Delance raised his beer and watched Hoadly throw down another swig of hard stuff.2003, Linda Chaikin, Desert Rose. From the entry short
  • Mum snaps open a can of lager, takes a guzzly swig and lets out a rattling burp.2002, Chrissie Glazebrook, chapter 9, in The Madolescents, London: Arrow, page 86. From the entry guzzly
  • He unplugged my umbilical cord to take a leisurely swig, smirking, watching me turn blue before giving it back.2019, Sally Thorne, 99 Percent Mine: A Novel, HarperCollins, →ISBN. From the entry brand
  • Pippa just nodded and took a swig of her wine.2015, Jenny Gardiner, Love Is in the Heir. From the entry girthsome
  • She took another big swig of her beer and wiped her mouth with the back of her hand.2015, Hells Lefse, Drogons 3: Victims Of The Victorious. From the entry wenchly
  • “Not 'mabok!' Not nearly enough!” She took a swig of his drink before handing it back to him.2012, Regina Long, Singapore and the Supernatural, page 30. From the entry mabok
  • The woman on the other hand is in her cups swigging from one wine glass while another stands at her elbow.2006 November 17, Margaret Hawkins, “Home Alone: Blackmon photos find solitude among domestic chaos”, in Chicago Sun-Times, page NC50. From the entry in one's cups
  • Then he took a fearless swig of the starchy latte.2005, Jonathan DiMarco, Good Bullets Make Bad Neighbors: A Novel of Accidental Discharge, Narberth, Pa.: Zaltys Press, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry rottingly
  • A man, only a few metres away, standing up in plain view, swigged on a bottle of voddy.2004, Catherine Bateson, The Air Dancer of Glass. From the entry voddy
  • He stopped, took a swig of the dead champagne.1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 65. From the entry dead
  • He took another swig with caution, and gave the bottle to David, and they swigged at it in turn.1966, William Mayne, Earthfasts, Peter Smith, published 1989, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry bowk
  • As every last Frey man swigs their special wine, Walder hypes the cunning it took to invite guests into your home and ambush them.2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and Dragons Come Home to Roost on Game of Thrones (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the…. From the entry keel over
  • They took a swig each from an old bottle of sherry and ate some stale digestive biscuits sealed in a tin in the mouse-riddled cupboards.2008, Joan London, The Good Parents, Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 235. From the entry riddled
  • You go swig some Pepto-Bismol and I'll pop a couple of aspirin and I'll take you to the movies over on Nineteenth Street."2003, Caroline Slate Fractured Truth, page 136. From the entry Pepto-Bismol
  • "Oh, don't be so butthurt, I was just messing with you, Bromigo," Glyn says, still laughing a bit while taking a big swig of his beer.2018 April 10, John Travis Green, “Chapter 4: The Hallow”, in The Cousin Seven: Beasts of Summer Hallow, illustrated edition, Lulu.com…. From the entry butthurt
  • Tim took a swig of flat ginger ale and stood under the shower (dialled to cold, then gradually lukewarmer) before putting on shorts and a sleeveless tee-shirt.2003, Larry Duberstein, The Mt. Monadnock Blues, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry lukewarmer
  • Soda was added to an interval pregnant with legal stultifications, and the trooper continued to say nothing till he had taken a swig at his almost neat whisky.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 161. From the entry concede

Meaning of swig

  1. verb To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
  2. verb To suck.
  3. verb To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line.

Full definition of swig

Questions about swig in a sentence

How do you use swig in a sentence?
Swig is used as a verb and noun. For example: “That sailor can swig whisky with the best of 'em.”
What is a short sentence with swig?
“take a swig of whisky”
What does swig mean?
Swig means to drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.

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