What's the difference between chug and swig?

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.

Swig


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.
  • (v. t.) To suck.
  • (n.) A long draught.
  • (n.) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
  • (n.) A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc.
  • (v. t.) To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.
  • (v. t.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "A paramedic taking a swig from the Coke bottle in his glove compartment that's half vodka."
  • (2) Just when you’re wondering if the real Nigel Farage will stand up, he ends the ad by swigging from a good old pint of ale.
  • (3) One man took turns swigging from what appeared to be a bottle of pink champagne in each hand, shouting “no justice, no peace” to no one in particular.
  • (4) Goldfish are swallowed, whisky is swigged from condoms, bodily fluids are smeared on furniture.
  • (5) And in case you wondered where she stood on this final, most pathetic failure of New York's imperious chief executive, on Monday night across from Piers Morgan, Quinn took a massive swig from a 32oz soft drink.
  • (6) When two men dressed entirely in tin foil with silver bobbles on their heads walked into the village swigging beer, TV reporters immediately surrounded them.
  • (7) They sew, but they also knit (at Knit and Natter), and cycle (with Radiant Riders), and taste beer (Swig for Victory).
  • (8) Nadal trots to his chair for a quick swig of an energy drink.
  • (9) The battered boozer taking an occasional swig from his bottle of Whyte and Mackay on the late Inverness-to-Glasgow train shares an ambition with the progressive lawyer nursing a glass of red Burgundy in his lovely north Edinburgh home.
  • (10) Like every appletini-swigging SATC devotee who swore watching Carrie or Samantha was like seeing themselves, the Entourage audience gravitated quickly to Vince's effortless starpower, to E's everyman, to Turtle's dogged hustler and to Drama's … OK, only a member of the Screen Actors Guild could truly empathise with the relentless humiliation of Johnny Drama, but it was impossible not to celebrate his few small instances of victory.
  • (11) Not to be put off, the British comic’s latest film Grimsby has drawn fury for depicting the Lincolnshire port as a rundown badlands strewn with litter and peopled by beer-swigging children and hooligan parents.
  • (12) People swigged beer, marijuana spiced the air, hip-hop streamed from a sound system.
  • (13) Swigging his brown bitter while Morrissey sipped his orange juice, he tried to find out whether this Smiths person liked Special K, Prefab Sprout or the Beatles.
  • (14) Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian We found a spot outside HSBC, sniggered at the irony, and I took a swig from my hip flask of hot water, honey and lemon, and another swig of Buttercup cough syrup before we kicked off.
  • (15) Ahrendts, who is married to her childhood sweetheart and has three children, rises at 5am and swigs Diet Coke.
  • (16) Remember the rise of the 90s “ladette”, personified in 1999 by the then Radio 1 Breakfast Show presenter Zoë Ball swigging from a bottle of Jack Daniel’s on the morning of her wedding to Norman Cook?
  • (17) In my view, people are searching for a different coffee experience, and that’s what artisan coffee is.” When Extract started roasting coffee beans in a shed in 2007, there were no hordes of bearded, craft beer swigging hipsters banging down the door for their daily caffeine hit.
  • (18) The two leaders, along with Merkel’s chemistry professor husband, Joachim Sauer, then sat down with locals for a specially brewed G7 summit banana and clove-flavour weissbier, weisswurst and pretzels, all of them appearing to swig back the beer, despite the early hour.
  • (19) A portly, bespectacled figure sporting a plum-coloured tie, Cayne swigged from a plastic bottle of water while answering questions.
  • (20) One quick swig from the magic bottle later and he's okay.