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Example sentences for "alcoholic"

Lexicographically close words:
alchemy; alchymist; alchymists; alchymy; alcohol; alcoholics; alcoholism; alcoholized; alcohols; alcove
  1. For one thing she was looking a picture, and for another the alcoholic visitor liked to reassure himself at intervals that she was still without shadow of suspicion.

  2. Rendall came in to see me and begged for leave to keep another drunk--what he called an alcoholic patient.

  3. Now the thing is how to get permission: first, leave for me, and second, leave to land an alcoholic on the island.

  4. I exclaimed, "I'll be the alcoholic patient!

  5. I think I am quite a success as an alcoholic patient, and also accepted by this time as the typical harmless antiquary.

  6. Even Jack, though he itched to see me thus labelled, agreed with me that a less definite form of drunkenness would be safer, and finally Sir Francis decided to substitute "an alcoholic breakdown.

  7. It is well known that the effects of alcoholic excitement are various as the natures of the subjects.

  8. Alcoholic stimulants and licentious excesses, without doubt, had produced those unseen changes in the brain, of which Dr.

  9. The atmosphere was impregnated with the filthy oil of the dimly lighted lamps, the odor of alcoholic drinks, and the poisonous smell of tobacco.

  10. In the dark smoky rooms alcoholic drinks were the principal beverage, and characterless women shared and indulged in the drunken revels.

  11. The French Government has placarded France with appeals to the people, attributing the decline of the birth rate and increase in the death rate to the widespread use of alcoholic beverages.

  12. The commission appointed brought in a finding that alcoholic poisoning was the great cause of the national degeneracy.

  13. A saccharine juice flows spontaneously from the joints formed by the knots; when fermented it becomes alcoholic and heady like hydromel.

  14. Acute Alcoholic Delirium (mania a potu), due to excessive amount of alcohol consumed.

  15. Symptoms are those of alcoholic poisoning, but vomiting and delirium are more persistent.

  16. Gills enjoyed a large salary, the greater moiety of which he consumed in alcoholic experiments; and shortly before the decease of his patron, he was promoted to the lucrative and easy office of some county registrarship.

  17. In this country the whole question of dealing with the sale of alcoholic drinks is recognized as such.

  18. Williams says, "We find no evidence that the prohibition laws have in the past been effective in diminishing the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

  19. Its popular significance after three centuries of Puritanism, rather inclines to alcoholic elation.

  20. For, bloated and inebriated though he was, paternal love still lived, a green spot in the waste, which alcoholic fires had not yet burned out.

  21. Be it known that for many years this grey headed man had without measure, poured down the alcoholic fire.

  22. Neither she nor Sir Walter come down to modern poetry--or to alcoholic girls.

  23. The alcoholic society girl you don't like will very probably give birth to a water-drinking daughter--who in her turn may produce a bibulous progeny: how often must I tell you that nothing is final?

  24. I could not get away from the Custom House sooner," he explained; and into his eyes there came for a moment that look of unrest and preoccupation which I had observed at times while we had discussed Newport and alcoholic girls.

  25. My deliberate allusion to alcoholic girls had made plain what I had begun to suspect.

  26. Their labors were successful, until the bane of the human family--alcoholic drinks--was introduced by the corrupt border traders.

  27. A restriction in the deeds to the lots and lands against the sale of alcoholic drinks has been continuously violated.

  28. Indeed, he had no need of wine or other alcoholic stimulants, his temperament being almost incandescent.

  29. For many years, as I have said, no alcoholic stimulant appeared on it.

  30. These experiments are inconclusive, because the subject has been accustomed to an ordinary flesh diet, perhaps also to alcoholic drinks.

  31. It is significant that John Bull is caricatured with a large abdomen and a coarse, ruddy, if not inflamed face, indicative of his hearty dining on flesh, coarse food and alcoholic drinks.

  32. It is undeniable that great eaters of meat, especially if they also take liberally of alcoholic drinks, are prone to diseases of the liver and kidneys, about or soon after the time of middle life.

  33. Nearly all the experiments have been made on persons accustomed to a stimulating dietary: their usual food has included a considerable quantity of flesh and alcoholic drinks.

  34. Some time afterwards, in a fit of absence due either to preoccupation or to the effect of alcoholic liquors, he left the café and, instead of getting into his carriage, got up behind it.

  35. His host and hostess had been under the impression that authors wrote habitually at night, and were unable to get through their work unless well primed with alcoholic liqueur.

  36. From noon, however, till two o'clock black coffee and alcoholic liqueur absorb the waiter's energies.

  37. Mild wines and milder climates may render the moderate use of alcoholic drinks comparatively harmless to races less nervously organized than ours.

  38. Alcoholic drink produces as its first effect an excitement and exhilaration much more intense than any pleasure coming from the normal gratification of natural appetite.

  39. What has been said of alcoholic drink is equally true of opium.

  40. But they had to release the American, although, when arrested, he had two shining new sovereigns in his ragged pockets, and was full of assorted alcoholic liquors.

  41. As a fact she had known what it was, for three years, to fight against the horrid advance of what was practically a disease, and a terrible one, in her late husband, the chief cause of whose death was alcoholic poisoning.

  42. They resist alcoholic fermentation, and must consequently be taken into account as constituents of beers and wines.

  43. The author next refers to his discoveries (15) that alcoholic solutions of a number of substances, organic and inorganic, freely dissolve the lower cellulose nitrates.

  44. The authors have investigated the action of alcoholic solutions of soda also.

  45. By treatment with alcoholic soda (NaOH) the products were resolved into a soluble and insoluble portion, the properties of the latter being those of a cellulose (hydrate).

  46. On saponification of these esters with alcoholic sodium hydrate, anomalous results are obtained.

  47. They are said to be very partial to toddy and arrack (alcoholic liquor).

  48. The use of alcoholic liquor, and fish and flesh is permitted.

  49. Some of them did not know the effect of alcoholic drinks in leading many young men to their first immoral sexual acts.

  50. Strong condiments and alcoholic drinks are known to be sexual excitants for many people, and for this and other hygienic reasons should be forbidden to children.

  51. As it is, they resort only too generally to wines and some very strong alcoholic drinks, which they make themselves.

  52. An entirely different and most unfavourable estimate is to be formed of the prospect of life in the alcoholic heart.

  53. I would rather mention one form of acute alcoholic failure of the heart of which I have recently seen a case, but which appears to be rare.

  54. But of 28 cases of alcoholic heart which I examined clinically in connection with the present inquiry in older subjects, only two hearts were of ordinary size (and as a matter of fact both of these patients were under 40 years of age).

  55. The course of alcoholic heart in older subjects usually becomes affected by the appearance of cirrhosis of the liver, Bright's disease, neuritis, and possibly dementia.

  56. The alcoholic heart is irregular and accelerated in about half the cases.

  57. There is not the exhilaration in the atmosphere that there is in America, and the moist humidity that you exist in is very favorable to the consumption of alcoholic drinks.

  58. It is ordered to all producers of alcohol and alcoholic drinks to inform not later than on the 27th inst.

  59. Those guilty of the distribution, sale or purchase of any kind of alcoholic liquor, and also those guilty of the violation of sections 2 and 4, will be immediately arrested and subjected to the most severe punishment.

  60. Until further order the production of alcohol and alcoholic drinks is prohibited.

  61. As we were looking at the pictures an alcoholic breath assailed me from the region of my left ear, and a voice said in thick but fluent French, "I see, by the way you admire the paintings, that you are foreigners.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alcoholic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    addict; alcoholic; ardent; dipsomaniac; drunk; drunkard; fiend; freak; hard; head; hypochondriac; idiot; inebriate; intoxicating; neurotic; psychoneurotic; psychopath; psychotic; soak; soaker; sot; spirituous; stiff; strong; tripper; user; valetudinarian


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    alcoholic beverages; alcoholic drinks; alcoholic fermentation; alcoholic liquors; alcoholic solution; alcoholic stimulants