(v. i.) To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.
(v. t.) To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer.
(n.) An insatiable thing or person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Almost half of those tested so far have received an energy efficiency rating of E, F or G, the lowest possible and the equivalent of a gas guzzling car.
(2) The near-freebie prices amount to an especially generous giveaway to Venezuelans fond of large SUVs and gas-guzzling jalopies from the 1970s and 80s.
(3) Rolls-Royce, which is owned by the German carmaker BMW , said demand had been strong for the Wraith, a chunky, gas-guzzling two-door car priced at more than £210,000.
(4) There are legitimate reasons around the world for this – one is to stop the guzzling of a scarce resource.
(5) Peruse the aisles of manga, play PlayStation and online games, charge your mobile, sleep, and guzzle as much free fizzy melon soda as you like.
(6) Convincing viewers that Don and his colleagues aren't actually guzzling back booze might be the hardest sell of all.
(7) But in the face of the first oil shock – and in an age where shared wartime sacrifices for the common good were recalled more vividly than today – by banning gas-guzzling speeds, Washington put the security of supply to the collective ahead of individuals' desire to push the pedal to the metal.
(8) We’d also need to build exercise into daily living, and curtail out of town supermarkets which can only be reached by gas-guzzling obesity-inducing car culture.
(9) In Guzzle Hole cave, the sharp-eared will catch the sound of an underground river.
(10) A new generation of technologies designed to reduce our carbon footprints, energy monitoring takes our electricity usage into the light via wireless handheld displays, web pages and electronic flowers that wilt as we guzzle power.
(11) The firms warned in a statement that calm winter days with no wind could result in "large-scale supply disruptions", particularly in Germany's affluent and industry-heavy south, which guzzles much of the country's electricity.
(12) The military accounts for nearly 80% of the US government's energy consumption and the two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have made strategists acutely conscious of both the massive cost and serious security risks of the gas-guzzling ways of the past.
(13) John Alker, public affairs manager of the UK Green Building Council, said: "Many of our public sector offices, schools and hospitals are the building equivalent of gas-guzzling cars.
(14) Stop the car’s battery recharging, perhaps, to save energy; test at unrealistically high temperatures and on super-slick test-tracks; switch off all the energy-guzzling accessories like heated seats, and air-conditioning, navigation and media systems; test cars at altitude.
(15) As a fast-food option, which is how people treat them in countries such as Thailand , insects are greatly preferable to the water-guzzling, rainforest-destroying, methane-spewing beefburger.
(16) Waiting at the hotel, we watched a minister guzzling champagne at the bar before being told we must meet the prime minister, Ignacio Milam Tang, first.
(17) As the Guardian has reported, new measures were pitched to put an electric car charging point in every new home , to redesign some energy-guzzling products and to remove new wind and solar power plants from the EU’s priority dispatch system .
(18) A child guzzles thirstily from a jerrycan lid before darting back into the crowd.
(19) Additional cuts also come from changes in their behaviour; shopping locally, holidaying in the UK and travelling by train, only putting the washing machine on when the wind is blowing and Postlethwaite forsaking his beloved gas-guzzling Saab convertible in favour of the their more fuel efficient VW Touran.
(20) Growth is not the answer to inequality Read more In this narrative, the biggest change you might have to make is to buy British lamb chops, not ones from New Zealand, exchange your gas-guzzling car for a Prius and, above all, remember to do your recycling.
Guzzler
Definition:
(n.) An immoderate drinker.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government must do more to encourage drivers to buy smarter cars that use less fuel by increasing the tax on gas guzzlers," Bosworth said.
(2) Maltings' seven cask ales include permanent Black Sheep, regular staples such as York Brewery's Guzzler and beers from newer, smaller breweries, such as Coxhoe's Sonnet 43 and Morpeth's Anarchy.
(3) About half of those gathered for the board meeting were direct descendants of John D Rockefeller – founder of the oil empire that eventually became ExxonMobil – and here they were, gathered in the estate he built at Pocantico Hills, New York, surrounded by a collection of antique gas guzzlers and limousines, preparing to take a highly symbolic stand against fossil fuels.
(4) Linking his revived plan for an extra-high congestion charge for gas-guzzler vehicles to the wellbeing of voters in the outer London boroughs of Bromley, Barking or Barnet is a cute ploy, but can he be sure that the policy "would raise millions to protect the fare-payer"?
(5) The first one replaced an Audi A4 all-roader, a big gas guzzler.
(6) Pledges include: Transport New congestion charge zone near Heathrow; increase the congestion charge from £10 to £15 and £40 for "gas guzzlers", and replace it with a London-wide pay-as-you-drive scheme in three years as part of measures to reduce pollution, ease congestion and improve road safety for everyone, including cyclists and pedestrians; aim to make at least a third of tube step-free by 2018.
(7) The cost of running a large polluting gas-guzzler will rise by less than expected - just £5 a month.
(8) The carmaker sees the Volt as an important symbol of its switch from old gas guzzlers to new greener and smaller cars, and is using a logo with the figure 230 printed on a green background to build interest in the brand.
(9) Above and beyond all that, John Lackey had to prove to a skeptical fanbase that his pitching struggles were because his arm was torn to shreds not because he was an out-of-shape beer-guzzler hated by his fielders.
(10) "The scrapping of the £25 charge for gas guzzlers and the proposed abolition of the western extension of the congestion charge zone will reduce the cost of driving in London, while the mayor imposes massive increases in fares for public transport and drives people off the buses."
(11) Patio heaters are the ultimate gas guzzlers and in deep midwinter you might as well try and face down winter air by blasting a hairdryer out the window.
(12) This includes raising the congestion charge from £10 to £15, slapping a £40 daily charge on "gas guzzlers", an ultra-low emission zone in central London and replacing the central congestion charge zone with a region-wide road pricing scheme after three years.
(13) Others might question whether gas guzzlers such as the Phantom are really appropriate in today's world of climate change and environmental awareness.
(14) Its mainstay Guzzler (fresh as the proverbial daisy, a dry, easy-drinking pale), was joined by the likes of Wonkey Donkey and Black Bess.
(15) Even fossil fuel-burning power plants have become more efficient, and electric cars provide an alternative to gas-guzzlers, while better building design and more advanced electrical equipment mean we can enjoy modern facilities without rising emissions.