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Example sentences for "teetotaler"

Lexicographically close words:
teetering; teeth; teethe; teething; teetotal; teetotalers; teetotalism; teetotaller; teetotallers; teetotally
  1. As a teetotaler I abstain wholly from intoxicating drinks and stimulants, and discourage the use of the same in others.

  2. I am not a teetotaler or temperance man in any way, and my rejection of all stimulants (my strongest drink being milk and much water) is a mere matter of taste.

  3. He wasn't a teetotaler exactly, but he never took too much under any provocation.

  4. Teetotaler for sake of example, always have been--and don't like the stuff either, never did.

  5. Ommaney drank the spirits--he was an absolute teetotaler as a rule, though not pledged in any way to abstinence--and it revived him.

  6. He confessed that he had once been a teetotaler for three years, during which time he had been much benefited; but had broken his pledge through the influence of his companions.

  7. Why is it dangerous for a teetotaler to have more than two reasons for the faith that is in him?

  8. Why should a teetotaler never take a wife?

  9. My opponent was a worthy, sturdy teetotaler known as Mr. Cory, whose sons still flourish as the great coal merchants of our day.

  10. Another teetotaler with whom I came much into contact was the late Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, a shortish, stout man to look at, a good public speaker, and warmly devoted alike to literature and science.

  11. A leading teetotaler with whom I had much to do was the late Mr. Smithies, founder of The British Workman and publications of a similar class.

  12. There was not a teetotaler in the community.

  13. Our teetotaler owner-captain was laughed at, and sneered at, by all of us because of his teetotalism.

  14. Well, I'm a teetotaler now," said George, resignedly.

  15. It was a pity that he did so, for with the good start as a teetotaler he had got during George Early's residence, he might have reformed and prevented the trouble that came, as trouble always does when you look for it.

  16. He was a teetotaler and took an active interest in local affairs.

  17. He had been a teetotaler all his life and was a prominent member of a militant temperance society.

  18. She is a buxom and cheerful young woman, neither a teetotaler nor intemperate, shrewd, and possessed of a considerable share of intelligence and humour.

  19. I might have been borne with perhaps if I had become a drunkard; for drunkards were in some cases tolerated; but a teetotaler was not to be endured.

  20. At first they were kept in check to some extent by the wisdom and goodness of my superintendent, who, though he did not become a teetotaler himself, showed great respect for those who did.

  21. Among my reasons for becoming a teetotaler was a desire to induce others to do so, who seemed to me to be likely, if they continued to use intoxicating drinks, to become drunkards.

  22. I had not been a teetotaler long before I became anxious to see my brethren in the ministry teetotalers.

  23. He often invited me to come over and deliver sermons to them, and occasionally a temperance address; for he was a zealous teetotaler and prohibitionist, and I always lodged with him at his house.

  24. Trall of New York, the most thoroughgoing teetotaler extant, exclaims: "Where are we to-day?

  25. Day has had under his care a man who, after being a confirmed drunkard, had been a teetotaler for eighteen years, and had then been advised to take wine for the purpose of hastening a slow convalescence.

  26. Now, I do not mean to say that every teetotaler is an honest man.

  27. I challenge the world to produce one single case wherein any real teetotaler has been convicted of one of those crimes.


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