How To Use Drink In A Sentence

  • Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
  • People at MSFC have told me over drinks that this study concluded that EELV are human ratable but they were going to do what Griffin wanted. Obama Policies on Transparency, Openness, and Participation - and NASA - NASA Watch
  • People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
  • My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
  • Drinkwise Day is mainly designed to educate people about the destructive effects of alcohol abuse.
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  • Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
  • A lot of people already have two alcohol-free days a week but still drink more than is safe. The Sun
  • Based on the number of coffee cans I found in his garbage a few weeks ago, I'd say he drinks 8-9 pots of coffee every day, or about 30 shots of espresso.
  • For all that, Grossman drinks more white wine than red, partly because he eats a lot of fish and vegetarian food.
  • Noah had calmed down after a couple of drinks, mainly coffee laced with alcohol.
  • When you eat or drink a food source of maltose, the maltose is split into two glucose units so they can be absorbed.
  • Let's go inside and drink coffee while we wait - likely the lords will keep us waiting all day before they blather their way to a decision. THE BROKEN GOD
  • Winky luved tu drinking frum deh water fawsitt…. she liking hur wadder fresh…it wuz a sinky-drinky fur deh winky-binky. Like the new bowl. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • The amount of water which is suitable to drink is less and less.
  • Considering my diminutiveness, the size of the pail in my lap, and my drinking out of it my breath held and my face buried to the ears in foam, it was rather difficult to estimate how much I drank. Chapter 3
  • She huffed, stood up, arched her back in a heavyweight stretch, turned to the fountain and started in on a long, long drink.
  • While you're in Miami, make sure you stay up to see the sun come up … and try a drink called Miami Vice, which is a mix of daiquiri and pina colada. Insider's guide to music pilgrimages: Hip-hop, dance, disco, electro
  • And the people who were subjected to hard yakka, slave labour if you want, or removal from islands because of drinking problems or fighting and they have complete hate and they've handed it down generationally.
  • Even the normal Perigordine fare of duck la gras and truffles washed down with red wine and pastis has yielded in favour of Scottish food and drink in celebration of the Auld Alliance.
  • We take a hard line with soft drinks - and cola is the worst offender.
  • We spent them and traded them and frittered them away on drink and food and pleasurable company.
  • That night, to reduce suspicion, I decide to go drinking with the trishaw drivers.
  • The Christmas penny jar will buy more food and drink than we could possibly consume over the holiday and there aren't any goodies I truly fancy finding in my stocking.
  • Adjacent to the restaurant is a bar, which is well stocked with an assortment of alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic drinks.
  • He said it was because he was paid to sit around and drink milkshakes all day.
  • It was strange, to buy a bottle of great wine for my guests and know I wouldn't drink a drop.
  • The Irish actor was as famous for his varied movie roles as his drinking and womanising.
  • Drinking was his ruin.
  • Trust the Irish to give it to you straight, with no blarney, when it's something as important as drink.
  • Drinking among the upper classes of Persian society, for example, took place at secret parties reminiscent of Greek symposia with their strictly ritualized etiquette and emphasis on poetry and discussion.
  • Why is a bus terminal called after the soft drink? Times, Sunday Times
  • Drink this for me,’ I say and pull his cowl down.
  • He walked with the aid of a stick and his physique spoke of too intimate a relationship with the demon drink.
  • Similarly, beer and soft drink cans, booze bottles and empty jars can all be recycled.
  • In their place you have to look at using low-joule cordials and soft drinks, plain mineral water and soda water, low fat milk and dry wines or spirits and even then limited to a maximum of two alcoholic drinks a day.
  • We had the tradition of preserving food and drink for long time consumption, by watching when the leaves began to fall and when there were changes happening to Nature.
  • We decamped to Porters, as usual, and took over half a dozen tables or so to drink the night away.
  • Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. 
  • The first problem was finding something as enjoyable as wine to drink after a day at work. Times, Sunday Times
  • While such drinks as the Sour Appletini have been getting lots of press lately, it seems the tried and true classics still lead the pack in popularity, at least according to the latest survey of bar managers and bartenders.
  • A class of boys is being led through a lesson about what water is safe to drink.
  • The disease is communicated through dirty drinking water.
  • There was no water to drink or wash in and children were begging, dressed in filthy rags.
  • If you wish to ascertain if a woman be with child, give her hydromel to drink when she is going to sleep, and has not taken supper, and if she be seized with tormina in the belly, she is with child, but otherwise she is not pregnant. Aphorisms
  • There was lots of food and drink at the party.
  • At the various delivery points, the consignee often treated them to food and drink in return for other messages carried for him on the side.
  • The fizzy drinks tax is doomed to fail, as it has elsewhere. The Sun
  • I doubt bed's the best place for 'un, an' gude 'ot drink. Complete Plays of John Galsworthy
  • Japanese green tea drinkers also consume less sodium than fat-bottomed American fizzy drink lovers.
  • A shuffling street drinker with a string of convictions over eight lost years, she is now notorious as the woman who exposes herself in public.
  • For a squeamish diary writer it was enough to send me to the editor's well-stocked drinks cabinet for a nip of his favourite barley wine.
  • The Cologne goalkeeper signalled his potential by publicly attacking the legendary Bayern Munich Maoist Paul Breitner for his heavy drinking, smoking and gambling though not, strangely enough, for his scrofulous appearance. Note to England's rugby players: embrace Der Aggro | Harry Pearson
  • People gather to drink both traditional and bottled beer.
  • WAIT for six minutes before drinking. The Sun
  • Bartenders will drink a shot, and then replace it with an equal amount of water.
  • However, such interaction is more effectively used in the drinking stimulus portion of the scenes than in the sensitization portion.
  • An inquest heard that the fire started after friends of Mr Wright lit candles in his flat while he had gone out drinking with a friend.
  • The residents of Mufulira that number about 800,000 are scared to drink the tap water for it could be contaminated. Water Contamination Scare in Zambia
  • It is a kind of effervescent drink that you make by adding water to the crystals and it is supposed to ‘pick you up’ and get you ready to go when you have had too much to drink the night before.
  • The touch of ice wine lends the drink the slightest honeyed, apricot sort of nose, but doesn't interfere with the brisk essence of the classic martini, which is, above all, dry.
  • Having to stand upright, dip to serve drinks and perch on the edge of chairs all night is clearly a workout in itself. The Sun
  • Overeating and drunkenness both violated social moral codes, although the latter appears to have been a much weightier transgression: intoxication is frequently listed among the serious crimes — "pleasurable living," adultery, theft — mentioned by Sahagún's informants. 47 Indigenous drinking practices also shocked Spaniards who had their own ideals of moderation when it came to alcohol consumption, a topic that we look at in Chapter 4. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
  • To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolute sober. 
  • What began as a cheap and easy way to disguise the taste of alcohol in prohibition America quickly became the drink of choice for the privileged fast set of the 1920s.
  • She let go of Mona's hand and took a sip of her drink.
  • Some men sat around the fire, cooking meat on sticks, drinking from gourds and laughing.
  • He's squandered all his savings on drink.
  • That's what Dan Kim, chief executive of Red Mango Inc., a frozen yogurt franchise in Dallas, did while trying to name the flavors of his frozen yogurt and iced tea drinks.
  • If you are more concerned about the quality of the food and drink than about socializing with your friends, decline the invitation and go out to a restaurant instead.
  • European visitors to the site on the Wells Estate are often dismayed to find a landmark where undrinkable water leaks from crumbling walls.
  • He describes himself sitting in a room with five children, aged ten to twelve, showing them a Taiwanese water dipping bird toy -- the little chotchke that tips back and forth into a well of water as though it's drinking. Susan Stiffelman: Education, Seth Godin, Factory Workers and the Taiwanese Water Bird
  • One night I was pouring my own drinks behind the upstairs bar.
  • I contacted a wine merchant in London and told him I wanted to buy some that would be fit for drinking in ten years time.
  • Since peak blood alcohol levels (BALs) reached per drinking episode are a crucial factor in FAS (Abel, 1999), the ‘average drinks’ measure distorts the relationship between alcohol and teratogenesis and muddies our perceptions of risky drinking. Pregnancy is a process
  • It is entirely possible to drink any wine with any dish, and anyone who says otherwise is talking bunkum; a respected gastro-bore friend of mine likes to drink white burgundy with stewed lamb, as he finds it brings out the texture of the meat.
  • A talented winemaker whose drinking wine of the moment is Shiraz, Debbie has a clear idea about the wine that she likes to produce and the wine she likes to drink.
  • Long grassers drinking and partying habits are used as justification for this persecution.
  • Some fans continued throwing, hurling their souvenirs, drink cups, beer bottles, batteries, portable radios and cell phones onto the field.
  • They will drink their wretched heartless stuff, such as they call claret, or wine of Medoc, or Bordeaux, or what not, with no more meaning than sour rennet, stirred with the pulp from the cider press, and strained through the cap of our Betty. Lorna Doone
  • You can take a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink
  • At least drinking a herbal brew gets around that age-old question of whether to put the milk in first or last. Times, Sunday Times
  • Police in Newquay are warning underage drinkers that the party is over. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you want a drink with your meal both restaurants and cafes serve alcohol. Cheap Eats Guide to Europe 1994
  • Dalmius nursed the invigorating fire-drink from a horn-flask, ensconced in leather, e'en as his thin hands trembled.
  • This could explain why chronic alcoholics often need an early morning drink just to get going.
  • There are different preparations of this drink, but I like the traditional way of shaking everything but the creme de mure, and then drizzling the liqueur on top. Cocktails That Complete Me: The Bramble
  • When should you have your last alcoholic drink? Times, Sunday Times
  • Chew sugarless gum, suck on sugarless candy, and drink plenty of unsweetened fluids.
  • Cats were slumbering noisily beneath the TV set and a smallish party of utter strangers were drinking Harp in the saloon lounge. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
  • I don't need a drink, " she muttered through clenched teeth.
  • The sweeping tall palm trees fringing the edge of the beach, seemingly bowed toward the sea, as if trying to dip their frowns over the white sands to reach the ocean for a refreshing drink of its cool water. "Best" Beach
  • She was on a cocktail of drink and drugs when she burgled a total of four houses to fund her drug addiction.
  • In Aberdeen, the licensing board has proposed minimum drink prices in pubs of £1.75 for a pint of beer, cider, premium lager or cocktail.
  • Divided into sections that cover small eats, drinks, soups, rice dishes, side dishes and sweets, the recipes are clear and concise.
  • The drink is available at all good bottle-os, and even at the Melbourne Uni bar.
  • Instead, eat food first, then drink afterwards for optimal health and digestive tract function.
  • Increasing westernisation of food and drink products there has helped pizza become the fastest growing category of the prepared meals sector.
  • The state makes almost a quarter of each year's wine production into brandy and the aniseed-flavoured spirit raki (like arak) which, drunk with water, is the Turks' favoured alcoholic drink.
  • Let's see more baked potatoes and lentil soup on school menus, fruit juices being promoted instead of branded fizzy drinks.
  • The drinks industry has made a gesture towards its concern about alcohol misuse by setting up the Portman group.
  • Smear carbon ash on the girl's face:Besides drinking, the boys seize the chance to smear carbon ash on the girl's face, which is a traditional program.
  • Two initiatives have been announced today to ensure drinkers are aware that their favourite tipples are getting bigger and stronger.
  • Other, roumyng the cities vp and downe and caryeng alway in bottles faire watre and fresshe, if any man be disposed to drinke, vnasked they willingly proffre it him, and refuse not to take, if he for their gentlenesse offre aught vnto them agayn. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much, or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave — but there's no reason to be in the passing lane. Robert Orben 
  • He drinks too much at dinner and makes an embarrassing comment in their company. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The assistant peered through the window and saw a group of people feasting, drinking, and reveling.
  • Kate closed her eyes in ecstasy at the thought of a cold drink.
  • One 'intertextual' moment stands out: Mark O'Halloran and Tom Murphy sit drinking cans of beer talking about their lives, how they got their girlfriends pregnant, and what they'll do next. Everyday, dir. Annie Ryan, written by Michael West
  • She took a long drink of water, swallowing it slowly as she looked around the courtyard.
  • Letters were piled up behind the door, but no food or drink was found in the flat and it is feared she may have starved to death after becoming too afraid to go outside.
  • In their immaculate uniforms they go through safety procedures and tirelessly parade the aisles, pushing trolleys laden with drinks, meals and duty free.
  • Foul drinking water was blamed for the epidemic.
  • She looked worried and asked if I wanted a drink from her water bottle.
  • We're again buying 25-litre carboys of drinking water.
  • There is also a good drinks chapter including ginger beer and lassi.
  • The disease is communicated through dirty drinking water.
  • So my advice is this: Keep the eight-glasses-a-day rule--not as a do-or-die goal, but simply as a tool to remind you to drink enough water to make up for any shortfall from your food.
  • With drink and festive cheer in excess, it's easy to throw caution to the wind and find yourself acting recklessly on a Christmas night out.
  • Heavy drinkers were those who had up to three pints of beer or six glasses of wine once a week. The Sun
  • Having four or more drinks within two hours shocks the immune system into the process. The Sun
  • He visited many speakeasies, “from mere drinking dens to palatially appointed private houses where you find whole families, including children, dining together with the utmost decorum, the elders taking wine.” CHASING the WHITE DOG
  • There was neither food nor drink.
  • So, have fun eating, drinking and being merry whether it's by a roaring fire or a slightly less picturesque roaring radiator.
  • By nature generous, Matt sometimes paid for his friends' drinks when they had no money.
  • Kurai says ‘I need a drink’ and then he yawns, covering his mouth with one hand.
  • When the rest are building their bothies and huts, these have finished preparing their food and drink. The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge
  • Some people bowl because it gives them a license to go out, have a drink, wear outlandish clothes, and yell.
  • Nothing lasts forever, so live it up; drink it down, laugh it off, avoid the bullshit. Take chances and never have regrets because, at one point, everything you did was exactly what you wanted. Marilyn Monroe 
  • Campbell was required to abstain from drinking alcohol and have no contact with three individuals.
  • He pulled another long drink from his flagon.
  • He went on: ‘Although drink driving has now become unsociable, it's about time that we accept that people driving in a sleepified state should also be social outcasts.’
  • We had drinks on the hotel balcony.
  • I knew that Alan liked the odd drink.
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  • They are great, splendid establishments, with wide, overhung, awninged terraces, and potted plants and electric lights and gold and tinsel, and mixed drinks and ices and sorbets, and all the epicurean cold things which one may find in the best establishment in Paris. The Automobilist Abroad
  • `Let's go and have a drink,' she said convivially
  • My friends being lushes, they also drink when anyone makes jazz hands or says something particularly stupid, which of course necessitates frequent refills.
  • During the day I drink only mineral water, fresh fruit juice, coffee or tea.
  • Meade had not thought to warn her that a woman in her condition should not drink, for it never occurred to him that a decent woman would drink anything stronger than scuppernong wine.
  • It was a very refreshing drink. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
  • Two soccer fans plunged to their deaths after a heavy drinking session.
  • Unleashed, she is a maenad: not crabby but sardonic and perpetually restless, she scrambles over the stage, squaring up to several men at a time; she drinks from a hip flask; she wees; she smokes – and she fumes. The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review
  • I don't drink any alcohol but I love papaya juice and drink tons of mineral water.
  • Shipping Girl Genius (and Other Trivial Matters) "Although strong drink is a mocker, I find that I need to be mocked. Archive 2009-01-01
  • Like many Keighley men Roger Nowell likes to have a drink with his mates down the pub.
  • So a relatively high price assures that the place will not be overrun by beer drinking mobs and niggards like other places.
  • Does the idea of drinking graham cracker milk gruel make you laugh or feel ill or both?
  • If you enjoy an occasional drink this may do no harm but by cutting out drink altogether you avoid any possible risks.
  • Two bars offer brisk service, and the bartenders will occasionally let you order up to four tiny drinks at a time, with rum, gin, vodka and rye on the menu.
  • One example is a non-alcoholic drink, called Malta, which is now being successfully marketed in Asia and Africa.
  • She had crashed her car into a hedge after drinking two bottles of wine. Times, Sunday Times
  • Offers of a complimentary drink or dessert were declined. Times, Sunday Times
  • Guinness drinking is on the decline in Ireland, with volume sales falling by an annual rate of about 3 per cent over the past four years.
  • He places the finished drink, a macchiato, on the counter.
  • Drinking a lot helps the kidneys do their job.
  • Or it might just be that it takes fewer drinks to get them sozzled, which is why they are constantly making their excuses to leave the party. The Sun
  • Over a drink he suggested doing a documentary on artisan skills of the English countryside. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
  • I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long. Select Temperance Tracts
  • I already had them figured for bourbon drinkers, and on receiving confirmation I poured a pair of doubles, left the bottle out and placed a tray of ice on the counter.
  • You are born-again, re-sobered, a former hardcore binge drinker and rumored huge fan of various illegal substances back in college, and you had at least one DUI arrest and went AWOL from the National Guard, and you've stashed away from public view all records of both your tenure as Texas governor, and those SEC investigations into your alleged insider trading. Chaos Theory:
  • The crowd were so well behaved, without an intoxicating drink passing their lips.
  • Elsewhere the drinkers sat in darkness, an umbrous gloom through which the orange flame of an occasional candle started.
  • He was also three times over the drink-drive limit, his inquest was told. Times, Sunday Times
  • They had some hot drinks to wash down their dry muffins.
  • It browses on ground cacti, is reported to not drink, and is superior in cursorial ability compared to other living species. Meet peccary # 4
  • So when I turned on my seven-hundred-dollar heels to strut toward the bar, and over to where Mona was—perched up on a barstool with a frosty drink in her hand, like I wanted to be—I was slightly annoyed when some nigga grabbed me gently by the forearm, pulling me back to the floor. Deep Throat Diva
  • Drinking more water has made a difference in my skin, and I no longer have chapped lips all the time.
  • He thinks to himself that, if it were not for war, he would not be about to go off and kill the fellow just like himself in the trenches on the other side of no man's land, but would be sitting down and having a drink with the man.
  • Matron allowed me to come too, for a while, to watch, pirouette around and drink a thimbleful of ginger wine.
  • Shaped like a large wooden pestle, the muddler is a must for summer drinks, like the Mojito or Mint Julep, which require muddling to bring out the mint's flavor. Stories from The Sun
  • All women can benefit from early advice on good nutrition, as well as about the importance of stopping risky behaviors, especially smoking, drinking alcohol and taking unprescribed drugs.
  • It perpetuates the image of the boorish, boerewors eating, brandy drinking supporter when, in fact, our supporters are highly intelligent with a keen understanding of the game.
  • This aw for i, which I have made Drinkwater use, is the latest stage of the old diphthongal oi, which Mr. Chevalier still uses. Captain Brassbound's Conversion
  • It was a party where everyone enjoys themselves; there is something for everybody whether you're a drinker or not, a dancer or a laid back kind of person; you surely won't feel left out in his party.
  • We cannot abstain from the daily grind as we can from food and drink. Times, Sunday Times
  • But worse came when I bought them each the smallest size drink and the smallest size popcorn. The Sun
  • I don't consider myself a caffeine addict, but I do drink diet Coke every evening and probably a weak coffee every day or two on average.
  • It is on their behalf, therefore, that he is taking action if he entertains guests and gives them food and drink.
  • It used to drink not leak a quart of oil every 750 miles. A 200 mile EV or a 13 mile PHEV? You choose.
  • The distiller recommends only drinking the 180 proof poteen with mixers.
  • My prodigious (if I may humbly say so myself) drinking is coupled with insatiable eating.
  • He had set his mind on a "jag" of the worst description -- to drink and forget. Colorado Jim
  • But the song longs for the old intoxication; he misses “drinking that sweet wine,” and the song had a gospelly buildup as he sang about getting “so high in the days gone by.” SXSW: Drinking Songs From Van Morrison - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
  • No more sweets, fried foods or sugary drinks, including Gatorade.
  • Punch investors are worried it will be undone by its huge debt pile and its fruitless attempt to stem the tide of drinking at home. Times, Sunday Times
  • But perhaps it was there on the terrace of the Villa America, tossing back Bailey cocktails, that Hemingway acquired his taste for tart, unsugared drinks. He Was a Cocktail Artist
  • He'd had too much to drink and tried to pick a fight with the bartender.
  • It could be toast or a tin of beans, and we drink tea.
  • Spen was in particularly frisky mood and ended up slopping his drink down my jeans while Ross lined me up far too many vodkas on the arm of a chair.
  • In places the sound of the river rises up the gravel slope, and thirsty dogs rush down for a drink and cannot reascend; should the owner go down to fetch the dog, he or she will be trapped as well.
  • An expert on herbal products and remedies, she said "If you have a predisposition to liver disease and are on medications that might affect the liver, then kava, which is also in some of these drinks, might not be the best for you. CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for Breaking News, Weather, and Sports
  • You will be greeted with a welcome drink, and once a week you can enjoy a romantic candle-lit dinner.
  • I was told to go home and drink hot lemon because all I had was the common cold.
  • After they'd all had a drink or two,(sentence dictionary) the conversation began to flow.
  • The country must also do more to tackle binge drinking. Times, Sunday Times
  • The ice cubes can then be drained into glasses for drinking water as they melt.
  • Apart from the damage that drinks dispensing machines are doing to school pupils' teeth, cans of sugary drinks are also adding to their daily calorie intake, resulting in obesity.
  • Instead, drink lots of water, a cup of skim or soy milk, or a cup of black coffee or tea.
  • It's a day where people celebrate by drinking the worst-tasting beer they can find, wearing ratty blue singlet tops with Australian flags as a cape, eating burnt "snags" from the "barbie" and listening to the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown on the radio from the plush confines of a deck chair placed in a kiddie's wading pool. A List For Australia Day
  • Heavy drinking can cause permanent damage to the brain.

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