ALCOHOL in a Sentence

Learn ALCOHOL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
54 example sentences for ALCOHOL, such as:
1. Not a drop of alcohol passed my lips.
2. This drink doesn't contain any alcohol.
3. He's had a drop too much of alcohol to drink.
4. One unit of alcohol is equal to half a pint of beer.
5. It would be wiser to cut out all alcohol during pregnancy.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of ALCOHOL
alcohol
 n.  a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
 n.  any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation
Classic Sentence:
1  She shivered in the garage while he spent half an hour in deciding whether to put alcohol or patent non-freezing liquid into the radiator, or to drain out the water entirely.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  He kept an alcohol lamp in his room, and a French coffee-pot, and his wife made coffee for him at any hour of the night he happened to want it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
3  The sunlight poured in, making everything on the table shine and glitter and the flame of the alcohol lamp disappear altogether.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
4  No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
5  As his last act upon earth, Comrade Napoleon had pronounced a solemn decree: the drinking of alcohol was to be punished by death.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
6  They had thought the Fifth Commandment was "No animal shall drink alcohol," but there were two words that they had forgotten.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
7  Mingled with good sense, it sometimes adds force to the latter, as alcohol does to wine.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL
8  The hideous potion of absinthe-porter and alcohol had thrown him into a lethargy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
9  He and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
10  There was no one in the anteroom; empty bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  Consumption of alcohol impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery.
2  According to the rules, no alcohol can be consumed on the premises.
3  Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
4  Thought always spent in cigarettes, total love in alcohol broken.
5  Drinking alcohol before driving is really asking for trouble.
6  It is ludicrous to suggest that I was driving under the influence of alcohol.
7  One unit of alcohol is equal to half a pint of beer.
8  One unit of alcohol is equal to half a pint of beer or a standard measure of spirits.
9  This drink doesn't contain any alcohol.
10  Each of us in turn had to describe how alcohol had affected our lives.
11  In this section we will describe common myths about cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana.
12  Not a drop of alcohol passed my lips.
13  He's had a drop too much of alcohol to drink.
14  The drug is not harmful per se, but is dangerous when taken with alcohol.
15  It would be wiser to cut out all alcohol during pregnancy.