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Example sentences for "intoxicants"

Lexicographically close words:
intoned; intones; intoning; intorno; intoxicant; intoxicate; intoxicated; intoxicates; intoxicating; intoxication
  1. South Africa has already recognised this by the remarkable consensus of opinion which she has shown in the prohibition of the sale of intoxicants to coloured people.

  2. In connection with natives the control of the sale of intoxicants is another matter of South African importance.

  3. Provision, however, was made for continuing the supply of intoxicants for sacramental, medicinal, and industrial purposes.

  4. But a resolution was also introduced into Congress demanding prohibition throughout the United States of the manufacture of intoxicants "for beverage," or of their sale, by means of an amendment to the Constitution (p.

  5. Mark pressed the intoxicants upon them even to rudeness, but without effect.

  6. I had not lived as a total abstainer; though, as I told you once, my mother, whom I can only recollect as a widow, had banished all intoxicants from our table.

  7. I took none myself, for never has a drop of intoxicants passed my lips since I first left my English home.

  8. The real influence of the intoxicants and narcotics in common use has been a matter of fierce and prolonged controversy.

  9. For a long time we have been more or less familiar with the financial, physical and spiritual waste resulting from the consumption of intoxicants in this country.

  10. To our great chagrin we found that an important neighbour near one of our hospitals was selling intoxicants to the people--girls and men.

  11. Prohibition of sale of intoxicants in Russia enforced.

  12. That intoxicants were given freely to American soldiers in Y.

  13. We were told that this would upset the theory that children inherit a craving for intoxicants from intemperate parents, and "the moralists and reformers would have to readjust this logic on these points.

  14. He said he thought the intoxicants were "fruit juices".

  15. Until then it had been uncouth mirth caused by the vile liquor sold by the saloons licensed by the Government, and against the Papeete regulations that no more intoxicants shall be sold to a man already drunk.

  16. They had no intoxicants when the whites came, not in all Polynesia.

  17. They saw that these men drank intoxicants in great moderation, lived in amity, and did not advantage themselves in trade or with the native women, as did all the other white men.

  18. The use of intoxicants in any quantity whatever, or at any time, is entirely useless and unnecessary.

  19. The inmates take their food better without the liquor, and they are thus taught that intoxicants are not a necessity of ordinary health.

  20. He began as a wild young man in evening clothes drinking intoxicants and playing cards, he ended as a wild old man in rags still drinking intoxicants and playing cards.

  21. Go where you will, man's tendency seems to be towards the bowl that inebriates, and yet it is not the use but the abuse of intoxicants that man has to dread.

  22. Hindoos, and as intoxicants have been employed from the earliest days in India.

  23. Resolved, That it is our duty and privilege to stand firm in our example of total abstinence by abandoning the use of all intoxicants from our tables and from every department of domestic life.

  24. In 1886 measures were taken toward securing a law prohibiting the sale of intoxicants upon fair grounds.

  25. S: They ask you about intoxicants and games of chance.

  26. S: The Shaitan only desires to cause enmity and hatred to spring in your midst by means of intoxicants and games of chance, and to keep you off from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer.

  27. Intoxicants are drunk as a form, as the most universal form, of self-indulgence.

  28. Southern members of Congress urged the submission of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, forbidding manufacture or sale of intoxicants in the nation.

  29. When we consider the amount of liquor which was given to each man--since intoxicants could not now be sold in the Palace--it is not difficult to understand this truly disgusting form of celebrating the Jubilee of our gracious Queen.

  30. No license of any kind will be granted, and stringent conditions as to intoxicants will be inserted in all the leases.

  31. Near New York there is another island where no intoxicants can be obtained, and it was hearing of this that first gave Mr. Charrington his idea as to the purchase of Osea.

  32. But all intoxicants with their blighting curse, and all superstitions with their blinding ignorance have had their day of usefulness and should be relegated to the dark tomb of oblivion.

  33. Whiskey, wines, and intoxicants once had their useful phase in arousing the sluggish brains of our half-civilized ancestors to higher realms of thought and perception.

  34. Senate G - Test vote on Senate Bill 1144, known as the "Stanford Bill," which prohibited the sale of intoxicants within a mile and a half of a University.

  35. Assembly J - Vote on Senate Bill 1144 (the Stanford bill), to prohibit the sale of intoxicants within a mile and a half of Stanford University.

  36. The danger involved for the lobbyist for reform measures was emphasized the night the measure prohibiting the sale of intoxicants within a mile and a half of Stanford University passed the Assembly.

  37. All this beer and other intoxicants are sold without a city license.

  38. Besides my body is wrecked and could not live without the intoxicants and drugs I can feed it here.

  39. A conscious or unconscious emissary of the vice lords lures them to these cesspools, robs them of their senses by subtle intoxicants and destroys that same night their virginal purity.

  40. These are to the ground like intoxicants to human beings,--if over-indulged in they are fatal, and even the partial use is of questionable advantage.

  41. He had rigidly kept himself to non- intoxicants for more than a month after the receipt of Mary's note.

  42. I reflected on the quantity of intoxicants I was now taking daily, and I shuddered.

  43. And one thing is clear--we must keep all intoxicants from him.

  44. Surely, if you are moderate in your use of stimulant, it would be a blessing, and not a curse, for it is only the excessive use of intoxicants which render them so harmful.

  45. I keep all intoxicants under lock and key, and the housemaid does not take anything of the kind.

  46. With rapid footsteps his wife followed him, leaving to the children as her legacy, the craving for intoxicants which had been engendered in their infancy and ministered to with such assiduity in following years.

  47. Then Mrs. Green spoke again: "There is only one step to be taken; from this day all intoxicants must be banished from our home.

  48. My grandfather was one of the first agriculturists to banish intoxicants from his farm, and I signed a pledge of total abstinence when I was only ten or eleven years old.

  49. When the whole Christian community of America shall imitate the wise example of that great philanthropist it will exert a tremendous influence for the banishment of all intoxicants from the public and private hospitalities of society.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intoxicants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.