quaff
verb (used without object)
to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
are quaffing
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present progressiveof quaff.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“I don’t mind if people in club class are quaffing Champagne, provided that the people at the back of the plane don’t feel their standards are falling behind,’’ he said.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2015
Hoodie-clad geeks are quaffing champagne in trendy bars, as they celebrate their nascent firms’ multi-billion-dollar valuations.
From Economist ● Jan. 23, 2014
Never was philter formed with such power To charm and bewilder as this we are quaffing; Its magic began when, in Autumn's rich hour, A harvest of gold in the fields it stood laughing.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
What is the rosy-chaliced flower, where nightingales are quaffing, Compared with thy sweet rosy mouth, and thy lips' rosy laughing?
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
