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Example sentences for "teetotalers"

Lexicographically close words:
teeth; teethe; teething; teetotal; teetotaler; teetotalism; teetotaller; teetotallers; teetotally; teetotum
  1. I find that the teetotalers and the anti-teetotalers hire the use of the same hall for their meetings.

  2. Everybody who saw the march, saw that the Champion of the Teetotalers was half seas over, and noted also that his brother, who made no hypocritical pretensions to extra temperance virtues, was dignified and sober.

  3. I don't mention politicians, even of the best class, who have at times to be teetotalers to catch votes in a democracy.

  4. I have dined in the best houses of the great American cities, and nowhere have I met teetotalers in those circles of society.

  5. The teetotalers say your calling is to send people to hell.

  6. There are these teetotalers to think of, and they are a strong party here.

  7. If, by a crusade of temperance pure and simple, you made teetotalers of the mass of low-skilled workers, their wages would indisputably fall, although they might be more competent workers than before.

  8. But the difficulties were great in the way of finding places for meetings, or of getting to them in muddy lanes, or of getting the anti-teetotalers to behave decently, or of the lecturers finding accommodation for the night.

  9. There never was such a chance for the working man as an investment, and thousands availed themselves of it--and were all the better for it--especially those who to pay their small subscriptions became teetotalers and gave up drink.

  10. I was the means of tens of thousands becoming teetotalers in the country round about, and the happy effects of my labors in those regions remain, to some extent, to the present day.

  11. I have known persons who were made teetotalers through the sufferings brought on them by the drunkenness of their fathers.

  12. It means that if you were all teetotalers and all thrifty, you could work for less wages than they now pay, and so they would be able to sell their goods at a lower price than they can now; and thus they would keep the foreign trade.

  13. All teetotalers like sugar; No nightingale drinks wine.

  14. He said, 'It is true that there are two teetotalers here, but they are here only for begging, whereas you have about fifteen hundred brought in who drink, and they are most of them committed for stealing.

  15. On the one hand, the teetotalers declare that the use of alcohol in any amount creates a physical craving and necessitates a progressive increase of the dose.

  16. And, in respect to experience, it is singular how few healthy teetotalers are to be met with in our ordinary inhabitants of cities.

  17. An argument drawn from purely scientific data, when once thoroughly mastered, is likely to be of more avail in checking intemperance than all the "spurts of extravagance" which teetotalers can emit between now and doomsday.

  18. There is no bigger proportion of teetotalers among men who have money than among men with none; and business men are as much given to drinking as artisans or labourers.

  19. That drink aggravates poverty is obvious; but no one can shut his eyes to the fact that all poor people do not drink, and that all teetotalers are not rich.

  20. Trall thinks we should all become teetotalers very soon, if only the doctors would stop prescribing wine, beer, and whiskey to their patients.

  21. When the teetotalers can answer that question correctly, they will be in a fair way to gain upon the "enemy" that is now so "rampant.

  22. The teetotalers have underrated the difficulty of the task they have undertaken, and misconceived its nature.

  23. If the teetotalers would induce some rational being--say that public benefactor, Dr.

  24. In all these drinks, teetotalers maintain, alcohol is power, the other ingredients being mere dilution and flavoring.

  25. Have teetotalers extinguished it as a rule of daily life?

  26. You shall forget all the intemperate teetotalers in a beautiful sleep," said she, putting her arms around his neck.

  27. Why do teetotalers run such a slight risk of drowning?

  28. It was uphill work, for so slow were the teetotalers of England to welcome the American importation, that twelve months of hard work saw only four 'lodges' formed, the total membership not exceeding a hundred persons.

  29. Many of these irreconcilables are loud in their declarations that the great mass of teetotalers who are content to work for local option are little better than enemies of the cause.

  30. At first, teetotalers relied solely on moral suasion; but soon the more advanced section in Massachusetts and Maine demanded that the law should aid them by putting a stop to the legalised sale of drink.

  31. What were the teetotalers doing all this time?

  32. But while the work of the teetotalers has been productive of much socially, their political work has been far more spasmodic, and less effective.

  33. By their almost inexplicable conduct, the leaders of that body helped to delay temperance legislation for a quarter of a century, and created a deep distrust of teetotalers in the minds of most politicians.

  34. The publicans would appoint their candidates, and the teetotalers theirs; and both parties would have a pitched battle at almost every election.

  35. Most of the teetotalers seemed to lose heart and do nothing; while for the few who were active the dynamiter's bomb, the incendiary's torch and the murderer's revolver were ready to silence them into submission.

  36. If it looked, however, it looked in vain, for the influence of the teetotalers was worse than thrown away in this struggle.

  37. The teetotalers in Ontario undoubtedly anticipated a victory, but even the most sanguine among them had hardly dared to anticipate such a majority as was obtained.

  38. The example of the teetotalers was followed by other reformers.

  39. According to a writer in the Newcastle Chronicle, the teetotalers were the first to introduce these popular social gatherings.


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