Noun
can I have just a swig of your lemonade to wash down these french fries? Verb
the only way he can stay awake at his night job is by constantly swigging drinks containing caffeine
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Noun
Between swigs of cold water in the team’s sweltering kitchen on the Ben Barber campus after a recent practice, student Kaden Walker said the group was confident.—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2025 Guy Fieri even popped out to take a swig from Hagar’s bottle.—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Verb
The four-decade veteran of As the World Turns made her exit after just over a year on the series in appropriately grand fashion, by swigging a teacup full of crushed sleeping pills in a January episode.—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 May 2025 Then Lochlan ends up swigging a protein shake from the toxic Bosch, and finding his unconscious body is what shocks Timothy into clarity.—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for swig
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