What's the difference between chug and quaff?

Chug


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Holliday chugs home, and the Sox are in some kind of trouble here, the kind that four base hits can bring early on in a World Series Game Three.
  • (2) Avoid the polluting chugging houseboats that cruise along the motorway-like larger canals and take a kayak for a tenth of the price through the smaller, unexplored waterways.
  • (3) Memorable examples include his drinking bout with Professor Henry Louis Gates' arresting officer, Sgt Crowley, or his chugging a few bottles while awkwardly bowling to pacify nervous, middle-class white voters in Pennsylvania during the primaries.
  • (4) Meanwhile, the sax parped sleazily and the monotone chug of the guitar presaged punk.
  • (5) One specific moment I was able to replicate multiple times on PS4 was a campaign scene that ran smoothly on Xbox 360 and PS3, while the game chugged On PlayStation 4.
  • (6) "It chugged down the middle of the river a couple of rod-lengths away from me like a tug boat.
  • (7) Three days after taking office, Bush proposed the No Child Left Behind education reform bill, which chugged steadily to passage about a year later.
  • (8) The meaty melodies are provided by John Squire, pinning down the guitar surging from caustic feedback to ecstatic wah-wah chugging – all in the space of a song.
  • (9) On that occasion your condition and demeanour, the result of your drinking, so shocked some of the audience nearest the platform that they left in shame and disgust ... Tony Abbott Tony Abbott’s 2015 antics included shirtless post-coup partying, and chugging schooners with students in Sydney pubs.
  • (10) We took the road train back from the stones to the visitor centre, and, as we chugged along, I asked an elderly American gentleman where he was from: "Virginia," he replied.
  • (11) Andre Brown is the one who chugs in for the one-yard score after New York’s drive was extended by a pass interference in the end zone.
  • (12) Switzer, who said many environmentalists are “watermelons” because they conceal “socialist agendas”, said Klein’s call to racially reshape capitalism is “a radical agenda, it’s bad politics because stands almost no chance of gaining widespread support, not just in Australia especially in developing countries chugging their smoking path to prosperity”.
  • (13) At home they greedily chug down a quart of amped-up babyccino .
  • (14) It's surrounded by nice bourgeois houses; buses chug past; there's something about the look of it which is simply not sérieux.
  • (15) He believes western companies have been guilty of “industrialising the creative process”, introducing resource-intensive procedures that chug along to the tune of “more with more” but are no longer sustainable in a resource-constrained world.
  • (16) Guerrero was still chugging after his man but more hesitantly – and shipped another lovely right in centre ring as he paused between exchanges.
  • (17) Anyone who boards a "jeepney" (a US Army jeep, flamboyantly converted for public transportation) there gains insight into the culture of repurposing and improvisation that keeps the city chugging along, whichever natural, political, or infrastructural disasters may come.
  • (18) Saints 0-6 Seahawks, 0:37, 1st quarter Seattle extend their advantage, Lynch not quite engaging Beast Mode but ripping off a few nice short runs as his team chug their way from their own 35 up to the New Orleans 31, from where Hauschka converts a 49-yard kick.
  • (19) He chugs forward a little and then attempts to direct a 20-yard shot into the far corner.
  • (20) At a time when many of her contemporaries were chugging cocktails in Blighty, Agatha Christie was paddling out from beaches in Cape Town and Honolulu to earn her surfing stripes.

Quaff


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts.
  • (v. i.) To drink largely or luxuriously.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One convicted Kenyan poacher who used a spear to kill 70 elephants and cut off their tusks with an axe to sell for £80 a kilo, said he did it because it was “just business.” The demand is not local but comes from south-east Asia, where an increasingly affluent middle class buys ivory that has been carved into trinkets and ornaments , and millionaires quaff ground-down rhino horn in wine as a status symbol .
  • (2) The London weather might be as chilly as Davos but that is where the similarities end, for while the world's movers and shakers quaff champagne, we make do with coffee and a surprisingly large array of teas.
  • (3) One of the more memorable acts of depravity involves an initiation process in which blindfolded newbie Alistair Ryle, played by Sam Claflin, has to quaff some wine and guess the vintage.
  • (4) There will always be someone who’s in a worse state, the one you can label the “real alcoholic” while you quaff nice bottles of wine and remain assured that you’re not yet that bad.
  • (5) Be warned that it is sort of expert-level , calling for a quaff every time the president says "Let me be clear" and every time Mitt Romney says "entrepreneurs" or "small business."
  • (6) Also facing the chop could be the BBC-sponsored party hosted by Yentob at the Glastonbury Festival where the wellington-booted guests quaff champagne while stomping around in the mud to sets by famous DJs.

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