gimlet

How To Use gimlet In A Sentence

• When I open a beer, I do not want to be reminded of grey-suited, gimlet-eyed executives bludgeoning satire into an early grave.
• And then, so that I might not perjure myself on the witness-stand or have the truth gimleted out of me by lawyers, I put on rags and hid myself among the thousands who trudge the highways and ride the trusses of freight-cars. The Landloper
• On this basis alone, men fear a woman tottering towards them at the beginning of an evening, already gimlet-eyed with toe pain, and sitting down to eat with old-lady sigh. The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran
• He gimleted all over the space back of the plate before he finally made out the ball coming to earth many feet in front of him. The Dozen from Lakerim
• They are very conservative, and as we all know, they have a gimlet-eyed view of government. Will Marshall: The Tea Party Is the GOP's Problem
• Black spindle-legs curled up to meet red-gimleted black faces, donkeys headless and legless, or sieves of shrapnel; camels with necks writhed back on to their humps, rotting already in pools of blood and bile-yellow water, heads without faces, and faces without anything below, cobwebbed arms and legs, and black skins grilled to crackling on smouldering palm-leaf -- don't look at it. From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War
• An intimate, art deco space, with a polished mahogany counter and wood-panelled walls, offers visitors with sophisticated tastes an elegant, cool ambience in which to savour whisky sours, white Russians, black Russians, daiquiris and gimlets PI Philip Marlowe's favoured tipple. 10 of the best barrio bars in Barcelona
• This gimlet-eyed memoir is Joan Didion's meticulous chronicle of the harrowing year following the death of her husband of 40 years, the writer John Gregory Dunne, who died of a heart attack at their dinner table. Deathless Accounts Of Mourning
• The chill eyes of Goodheart gimleted into those of his assistant. A Man Four-Square
• At a later date, a special steel gimlet was sometimes provided to penetrate the more modern tin cap in situ.