alcoholic

Example Sentences

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And fruity martinis fit perfectly into this cultural moment: drinks that feel like cocktails but don’t taste aggressively alcoholic.

From Salon

The measure will affect three fifths of all alcoholic drinks sold in pubs, the government said.

From BBC

A suicide attempt left her in a coma, and she ended up an alcoholic, anorexic heroin addict living in a bomb-damaged building in London's Soho.

From BBC

“We want to drink. And I think in the past, more of those drinks would have just been alcoholic drinks, because that's what was available,” she added.

From Salon

He was born Stuart Krieg Murphy on Feb. 20, 1927, in Phoenix, the son of an alcoholic father who abandoned his family when Stuart was an infant.

From Los Angeles Times