How To Use Gimlet In A Sentence
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It lay, too, in the glitter of the cold eyes that gimleted mine sharply.
The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure
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The organization known to the world as Interpol has sometimes been described as an outfit of chisel-jawed gimlet-eyed crime fighters who put their lives in jeopardy every working hour.
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As two very different ingénues battle it out for the lead, a brassy veteran chorine (Megan Hilty, a true Broadway veteran) and a newbie from Iowa with heart (American Idol's Katharine McPhee), Smash at times evokes Bob Fosse's classic All That Jazz in its gimlet-eyed, gamy yet irrepressibly fabulous and tuneful valentine to the business of show biz.
Monday TV in Review: Smash's Opening Night, Plus House, Castle, and More
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Will the gimlet eyes of the fash pack expose me and my high street attire?
Times, Sunday Times
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I took my own kids to see it, ready to have my emotions plundered and, sure enough, before it was halfway through, tears were coursing down my cheeks, much to the disgust of the gimlet-eyed gang along the row.
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The three small lead weights, a long chalk line reel, and two ash handles thought to be gimlets (small boring tools) are the only objects associated with carpentry that were found in the chest.
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His gimlet eye is always on the hunt for subjects that his peers might overlook.
Times, Sunday Times
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But for all her gimlet-eyed calculation, Perry packs more wit and charisma into her eyelash extensions than most pop stars manage in a career.
Justin Bieber; Katy Perry – review
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The next afternoon, my father was sipping gimlets and preparing an extravagant meal for the four of us to share around the glass dining table.
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We sat at the bar, and the guy behind it knew April by name, and gave her the usual, a vodka gimlet.
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The area is covered by dense hardwood eucalyptus forest composed of blackbutts, salmon gums and gimlets.
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As two very different ingénues battle it out for the lead, a brassy veteran chorine (Megan Hilty, a true Broadway veteran) and a newbie from Iowa with heart (American Idol's Katharine McPhee), Smash at times evokes Bob Fosse's classic All That Jazz in its gimlet-eyed, gamy yet irrepressibly fabulous and tuneful valentine to the business of show biz.
Monday TV in Review: Smash's Opening Night, Plus House, Castle, and More
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The lawyer always drank three vodka gimlets on the way to Chicago and three scotch and sodas returning to New York.
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From face to face and speaker to speaker his eyes would turn, boring like gimlets of incandescent ice, disconcerting and perturbing.
The Mexican
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It isn't about numbers, be they player stats or the staggering sums spent by top-tier franchises, even though the story seems at first to be asking us to root for the gimlet-eyed statistician, rather than the sharp-eyed pitcher or batter; for data, rather than intuition; for the cool satisfactions of science, rather than the fevered romance of sport.
'Moneyball': Stars, Stats and Perfect Pitch
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The gimlet-eyed joke is that Madeleine has become enamored of a book that is designed to undermine that feeling.
Sense & Semiotics
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In one picture, she turns a gimlet-eyed gaze on a curvy babe dancing with a mustached man.
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Hanging from the cascabel are two pouches: the tube-pouch containing friction "tubes" (primers for the vent) and the lanyard; and the gunner's pouch with the gunner's level, breech-sight, pick, gimlet, vent-punch, chalk, and fingerstall (a leather cover for the gunner's second left finger when the gun gets hot).
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
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Our railway tunnels are wonderful works of science, but the mole tunnelled with its foot, and the pholas with one end of its shell, before our navvies handled pick or spade upon the heights of the iron roads: worms were prior to gimlets, ant-lions were the first funnel makers, a beaver showed men how to make the milldams, and the pendulous nests of certain birds swung gently in the air before the keen wit of even the most loving mother laid her nursling in a rocking cradle.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Vaniman could not understand what he was saying, but the sharp questions that were interjected by the manager of the affair -- the queries that gimleted for additional information -- suggested the line of confession that Britt was giving forth.
When Egypt Went Broke
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After insertion to the shoulder, the gimlet would be unscrewed a few turns to allow the liquid to flow out, then screwed back into the barrel to stop the flow.
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His aides speak in hushed tones about his ferocious mind, acute attention to detail and a gimlet eye for a deal.
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But his integrity, to say nothing of his sanity, is under constant challenge from the competing demands of an exuberant multinational staff, a gimlet-eyed hotel management, and business partners with whom he is secretly planning a move to a restaurant of his own.
In the Kitchen: Summary and book reviews of In the Kitchen by Monica Ali.
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Had it not been for Kelsey's gimlet-eyed scrutiny she would have allowed him more.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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All three brothers had their attention focused intently on him now: gimlet-eyed Gaviral, bloodshot Gavahaud, moist-eyed foolish Gavdat.
KING OF DREAMS
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‘Sometimes I feel like I'm trapped in my past,’ said Sarah, buzzing from her gin gimlet.
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And then, so that I might not perjure myself on the witness-stand or have the truth gimleted out of me by lawyers, I put on rags and hid myself among the thousands who trudge the highways and ride the trusses of freight-cars.
The Landloper
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On this basis alone, men fear a woman tottering towards them at the beginning of an evening, already gimlet-eyed with toe pain, and sitting down to eat with old-lady sigh.
The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran
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He gimleted all over the space back of the plate before he finally made out the ball coming to earth many feet in front of him.
The Dozen from Lakerim
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They are very conservative, and as we all know, they have a gimlet-eyed view of government.
Will Marshall: The Tea Party Is the GOP's Problem
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Black spindle-legs curled up to meet red-gimleted black faces, donkeys headless and legless, or sieves of shrapnel; camels with necks writhed back on to their humps, rotting already in pools of blood and bile-yellow water, heads without faces, and faces without anything below, cobwebbed arms and legs, and black skins grilled to crackling on smouldering palm-leaf -- don't look at it.
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War
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An intimate, art deco space, with a polished mahogany counter and wood-panelled walls, offers visitors with sophisticated tastes an elegant, cool ambience in which to savour whisky sours, white Russians, black Russians, daiquiris and gimlets PI Philip Marlowe's favoured tipple.
10 of the best barrio bars in Barcelona
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This gimlet-eyed memoir is Joan Didion's meticulous chronicle of the harrowing year following the death of her husband of 40 years, the writer John Gregory Dunne, who died of a heart attack at their dinner table.
Deathless Accounts Of Mourning
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The chill eyes of Goodheart gimleted into those of his assistant.
A Man Four-Square
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At a later date, a special steel gimlet was sometimes provided to penetrate the more modern tin cap in situ.
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Pulling his protector by the sleeve, ‘Mr. Herries — Mr. Herries,’ he whispered, eagerly, ‘ye have done me mair than ae gude turn, and if ye will but do me anither at this dead pinch, I’ll forgie the girded keg of brandy that you and Captain Sir Harry Redgimlet drank out yon time.
Redgauntlet
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Suiting the action to the word, he thrust her rather suddenly and prematurely into a chair, and designing to reassure her by a little harmless jocularity, such as is adapted to please and fascinate the sex, converted his right forefinger into an ideal bradawl or gimlet, and made as though he would screw the same into her side — whereat Miss Miggs shrieked again, and evinced symptoms of faintness.
Barnaby Rudge
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I would especially recommend the mojito and the vodka gimlet - delicious!
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When I open a beer, I do not want to be reminded of grey-suited, gimlet-eyed executives bludgeoning satire into an early grave.
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From first to last the case was bitterly contested, and always with the realization among those present -- except for that somber figure in black, whose beady eyes gimleted the defendant -- that it was another move in the fight between the rival copper kings.
Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain)
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My mother fixes me with a gimlet gaze.
Times, Sunday Times
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His narrow, gimlet gaze, on the other hand, betokens a man of limited mind and sympathies.
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My mother fixes me with a gimlet gaze.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am fixed with a gimlet-eyed stare: ‘I find it hard to turn anything else into music.’
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And he points out a gimlet-eyed eagle perched in a tree.
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His Hoover is more to be censured than pitied, an obsessive-compulsive creep with the vocal rhythms of a ball-peen hammer and a gimlet-eyed gift for blackmail.
'J. Edgar': Hoover's Life, in a Dramatic Vacuum
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His gimlet eye is always on the hunt for subjects that his peers might overlook.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lady gimleted us again one by one with her blue eyes.
New Treasure Seekers
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No; but he gimleted you, all right," Hopalong replied.
The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
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Will the gimlet eyes of the fash pack expose me and my high street attire?
Times, Sunday Times
