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How To Use Wigging In A Sentence

  • We sit swigging the wine with which we are liberally provided, then we disperse.
  • The comedian waited were he was, swigging from his hip flask.
  • A malfunction is being blamed for some callers being able to listen in to other people's calls - and presumably, other people earwigging into their conversations.
  • You ask, what if I had slipped from those Marseilles roofs, and been dashed to pieces on the cruel cobbles, or torn asunder by those ensanguined terrorists?" cries he,, swigging champagne and waving a pudgy finger. Watershed
  • We all went to swim before lunch, rather necessary after swigging Martinis.
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  • He was later seen swigging from his hip flask. Times, Sunday Times
  • Forget about grabbing a tallboy and swigging it from a brown paper bag in downtown Doha, Qatar's capital and host of the 2022 World Cup; no booze in public. Alan Black: Budweiser at 106 Degrees Fahreinheit: USA Loses World Cup Bid
  • Spring into spring with this fragrant, grapey, musky muscat with lots of delicious, lively hot-house fruit on the palate and an intriguing smoky finish that was born for warm weather aperitif swigging and spicy oriental fare.
  • One or two were swigging from a whisky bottle. The Sun
  • And behind any club at night you will find gangs of sophisticated and gorgeous thirty-somethings swigging guiltily from an illicit flask of vodka.
  • He sat swigging beer and smoking.
  • But there was something stranger still: I'd just bidden farewell to Sardul's escort and my jampan, and was being conducted on foot by a yellow-clad officer of the Palace Guard, when I noticed an extraordinary figure lounging in an embrasure above the gate, swigging from an enormous tankard and barking orders at a party of Guardsmen drilling with the light guns on the wall. Flashman and the Mountain of Light
  • Grewcock appeared to be lucky to receive only a wigging.
  • He might suspect the young Briton could pull a political stunt by giving him a wigging.
  • According to the unnamed paper, The demonstration took a bizarre turn when twenty-four young people wearing ill-fitting suits and ties lined up on Sixth Avenue, swigging vinegar, syrup of ipecac, and food coloring, and vomited red, white, and green. Malcolm on the mall (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • The forthright, hip-gyrating dance for the array of disco-dancing and drink-swigging Brits is set tightly on the polonaise Tchaikovsky called a "dance with goblets," albeit, in the original, wine-filled ones toasting that libretto's prince. Fair Feathered Friends
  • It seems to confirm what we always suspected - that Austrian wine, like Strauss operettas, is frivolous and irresponsible and only for swigging by the jugful.
  • From shamelessly earwigging the author's conversation with her friend we learnt the following facts: Advances -- part 2
  • Forgot to taste the mixture before swigging it. Times, Sunday Times
  • I travelled in reading a report for the first of two meetings today, swigging copious amounts of fizzy mineral water and nursing a large hangover.
  • They went on about benefits, making ends meet and why New Labour is so out of touch with the plight of those on the dole as I nodded surreptitiously into my pint, earwigging all the while.
  • One lad kneels over an old synthesiser frequently swigging from a bottle of white cider.
  • One or two were swigging from a whisky bottle. The Sun
  • Mr Culpepper, the purser, was my abomination -- a nasty, earwigging, flattering, bowing old rogue. Percival Keene
  • This year marks the centennial anniversary of the peaceful dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway, so it's highly likely many Norwegians are swigging down many pints of Ringnes now.
  • She's probably wigging it in this case. The Sun
  • Earwigging on the crew, we heard nothing but praise.
  • Organic wines are not as prevalent in supermarkets as they should be, so this ripe, spicy, plummy red, with its gentle pepper-and-creosote rhône fruit makes a welcome new addition to summer swigging.
  • Yet the demand for the rich, full-bodied, lemony, appley or peachy charms of this easy-going, easy-swigging grape continues.
  • Merlot continues to be a much-loved, easy-swigging summer red. Times, Sunday Times
  • A waitress breezed by, and Steff ordered a bottle of Dos Equis (the nearest thing he could get to McEwan's Export; it was dark and rough) in a near-whisper, diligently earwigging the conversation on his right. Not the End of the World
  • And finally, it was in immense relief that the hilariously drunken Lensman, his money gone to the last millo, went roistering up the street with a two-quart bottle in each hand; swigging now from one, then from the other; inviting bibulously the while any and all chance comers to join him in one last, fond drink. Gray Lensman
  • Parents, most of whom have so far been very indulgent about the cola-swigging habit of their offspring, have been forced to sit up and take note.
  • She was even with her hubby, the Labour wa it loads of calls, all work related (yes I was big style earwigging), and I was quite impressed that they were travelling cattle class. Army Rumour Service
  • She had to be in control, even if it meant artificially reining in her wild emotions by swigging a few drinks.
  • I can imagine a young ant getting a severe earwigging from one of the major-domos for its stupidity. The Naturalist in Nicaragua
  • This week it's the turn of the easy-swigging under-6 and under-8 selections. Times, Sunday Times
  • Makes a change from the usual festival fun, wigging out in the dance tent. The Sun
  • Soon they're swigging beer, blowing joints, ripping off drug-dealers and trying to sell a gun they jacked from a local gang.
  • Teenagers sit swigging beer at roadblocks, ready to kill anyone who doesn't have the right papers.
  • He'd been earwigging on our conversation and asked me what it was all about. The Beagle Project on the BBC and cut dead by creationists on a train.
  • He was frequently seen in cafés, heavily guarded, swigging down copitas of the brandy to which he was so partial.
  • Band members had to photograph one another swigging the bright orange drink.
  • Eye clippings and leggings eye clippings, which are also referred to as face pieces, wiggings, or topknots, should never be mixed with crutchings.
  • At one point he began swigging from a water bottle. Times, Sunday Times
  • As an investigative hack, Parlabane was a ninth-dan blackbelt in the art of earwigging, but he had soon learned there was little need to be surreptitious about it in a place where nobody would ever describe discretion as the better part of valour. Boiling a Frog
  • Maybe this will deter people from swigging from them all the time. The Sun
  • My brother Bruce and I were standing on the rear patio of my father's house, swigging beers as my dad was readying steaks for the grill.
  • Thousands of renters - twigging that some real bargains are beginning to appear in estate agents' windows - are rushing to comply. Times, Sunday Times
  • Switching from summer to autumn swigging is usually a trial ... but not this year. Times, Sunday Times
  • They finally got her into the office, so I started earwigging outside. ‘Look, if you promise not to come into the store again nicking, we'll let you go.’
  • He is just now twigging to the reality that the Bush family name will be cindered for all time by the time this game plays out. Think Progress » Following a speech in Abu Dhabi,
  • One or two were swigging from a whisky bottle. The Sun
  • She also has a film on her lip after swigging milk. The Sun
  • The last we saw of him he was pictured swigging beer on a yacht in Marbella.
  • So tuck into this one's sweet, scented, easy-swigging, curranty fruit. Times, Sunday Times
  • With spring swigging in mind, Somerfield is introducing a juicy new range of Antipodean Riesling, dry muscat, Sauvignon Blanc and Verdelho wines.
  • It's easy to stereotype all adolescents as alcopop-swigging, hoodie-wearing, dope-smoking delinquents.
  • After the conference speeches are over, I drift around the hotel bars earwigging on conversations.
  • It's always best to drink bubbly from a glass rather than swigging it directly from the bottle.
  • In yet another he is seen swigging from a bottle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Like most writers, Dewar is a good listener, earwigging on other's conversations.
  • In this diary, the heroine is more likely to spend her days loading cartloads of hay and selling cattle rather than counting calories and swigging Chardonnay.
  • Swigging something from plastic cups, they grew red-faced and raucous, hiccupping and screeching. Times, Sunday Times
  • In one corner was a hefty table of corporate lawyers (no interesting earwigging there); in another sat the insurance posse; over to my left were the corporate finance crew.
  • Dressed in regulation New York black, the opening crowd is much too busy swigging its wine and talking to its friends to listen or watch.
  • One or two were swigging from a whisky bottle. The Sun
  • When the friend arrives, he is handed the second Coke and starts swigging it with no clue where it had been.
  • You said that she probably gives him a wigging now and then: that is particularly apposite when one considers her courtroom persona, from both sides of the bench.
  • In the silent movie The Snowman by Wallace McCutcheon, a chain-smoking snowman is swigging whiskey and appears in the rest of the film sloshed, inspiring a flogging by the townspeople. Boing Boing
  • No fund manager is going to get a wigging from the FSA, still less a belting fine, by buying and holding gilts.
  • They gave him an earwigging, which he took in good part. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's a safe bet that a good many Simpsons buffs snicker at the Comic Book Guy without quite twigging that they are, in fact, laughing at themselves.
  • Lured by its 'classy'-but-torrid R&B vocals and designer-label flaunting, champagne swigging, no-trainers-allowed ethos of living large, much of Jungle's black audience has defected to this most recent dancefloor mutation. The Wire
  • Marcia, swigging some metho, thanked Dan for the performance.
  • In the above situation it is quite appropriate to look the other way whilst earwigging and they will pretend you can't hear their conversation.
  • Before his cover was blown, Baron Cohen managed to interview a staggering array of public figures without them twigging he was play acting.
  • The team, swigging from champagne bottles and drinking Australian lager, waved from open-topped coaches to thousands lining the two-mile route through the West End from Marble Arch led by an escort of police horses.
  • Kim was given the secret task of artfully slipping the tongue-twisting word 'discombobulate' into conversations with each of the camp mates without any of them twigging there was anything awry. Undefined
  • He laughed, before swigging the contents down.
  • Now one couple have taken their earwigging a step further. The Sun
  • It seems to confirm what we always suspected - that Austrian wine, like Strauss operettas, is frivolous and irresponsible and only for swigging by the jugful.
  • Yet he comes across like a guilty schoolboy fearing a wigging from the headmaster. The Sun
  • If he identifies himself as an Ashes fast bowler this summer then Angus Fraser, his director of cricket at Middlesex, might reflect on a gentle earwigging from his dad a month ago and deem it worthwhile. England's Steven Finn at home but Ajmal Shahzad has capital capers
  • Neil gets a wigging for non-publication of a favourable review.

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