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Example sentences for "teetotallers"

Lexicographically close words:
teetotal; teetotaler; teetotalers; teetotalism; teetotaller; teetotally; teetotum; tegit; tegmen; tegument
  1. Enthusiastic teetotallers fill the columns of the press with letters which in their dimensions rival the Enormous Gooseberry and in their demands on our credulity exceed the Sea Serpent.

  2. He was sorry if that went against teetotal doctrines, but if people must be teetotallers they had best drink water and not tea with their meals.

  3. You don't know them teetotallers as well as I do, sir.

  4. I hear the sound of water not far-off; and I don't doubt there's enough to quench the thirst of all the teetotallers in the colony.

  5. But those who are not teetotallers would resent it much more.

  6. There are many teetotallers among them now, and they would resent any imputation on their temperance.

  7. He was about to explain that, in a country of vested interests, publicans and teetotallers agreed to require that beer supplied gratis in the name of charity must be innocuous and unenticing.

  8. But I heard Brother Copas say the other day that the teetotallers were in a hopeless case; being mostly religious men, and yet having to explain in the last instance why Our Lord, in Cana of Galilee, did not turn the water into ginger-pop.

  9. Like most teetotallers and non-smokers Eneas was a ruthless talker.

  10. He read them a lecture, and having in his mind's eye the banner of the teetotallers he pointed out to the delinquents the frightful consequences of drink.

  11. There are still a few remaining with us who keep up the old traditions, but the political forces of brewers and teetotallers have squeezed this excellent race of public servants almost wholly out of existence.

  12. Some had cigarettes and the teetotallers had lemonade or ginger beer.

  13. I know half a dozen teetotallers who get it regularly.

  14. It may be a consolation to teetotallers to reflect that the fact of burning the rum causes all the alcohol to evaporate, and there is nothing left but the flavour.

  15. At the period to which we refer, numbers of anxious mothers would have regarded the advice to bring up their children as vegetarians and teetotallers as positive cruelty.

  16. This was Edward Baines, who had been, as I have told on a previous page, so scurvily treated by the teetotallers in 1874.

  17. The teetotallers deliberately wrecked the only Government which was prepared to reform the licensing system.


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