Sentence examples for tumbler from inspiring English sources

Ask for a G&T 10 years ago, and a lukewarm tumbler would be plonked before you, along with a sorry looking excuse for a lemon.

I pay $5 for a tumbler of Yukon Gold whiskey (the cocktail is available with any drink now, even non-alcoholic ones), and $5 to join the club.

At a stroke, whole generations of middle-aged Tory men can feel dreams of high office evaporating like the fumes from a consoling tumbler (or two) of late-night Scotch.

An egg needs to be handled differently from a heavy glass tumbler.

"You're bathed in a rose light," the psychic croons to Helena after plying the elderly woman with a tumbler of scotch.

The voice rises in volume and, with an exaggerated roll of the "r", the senator points out that the founding fathers talked of "treason" as a reason to remove a president from office, not the sins of Mr Clinton.But it is getting late; the tutorial must end; the second tumbler of sherry must be regretfully declined.

In its hometown of Leuven it is a flat-sided tumbler; elsewhere only one with diamond mouldings near the base will do.

Throughout Mr Walcott strives for clarity in his work, as he writes in one of his earliest collections:…I seek As climate seeks its style, to write Verse crisp as sand, clear as sunlight, Cold as the curved wave, ordinary As a tumbler of island waterHis style should be "plain/as life".