hard drinking

Example Sentences

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There is McAvoy's hard drinking, watery-eyed boss, played by Sam Waterston, who defends the show to the relentlessly commercial, highly nepotistic and unguardedly stupid cable owners.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2012

Almost without exception they were well along in years�men who had spent the best part of their lives in hard riding on the range and in hard drinking afterwards, bronzed and heavy-handed titans.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here, by the bye, came along the inevitable run of prolonged reading, like hard drinking, which, of course, every boy and girl has undergone.

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert

Levinge's and Castlereagh's hard drinking and gloomy aspect at mess were popularly attributed to the witchery of the St. Aubyn.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

Vague reports, assertions without proof, have been not infrequently made, to the effect that the Zouaves are in character cruel, dissolute, and excessively given to hard drinking.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various