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
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
There were a good many guests in the house at times, almost invariably men, but none of the wild revels of the old days, very little hard drinking, and no play to speak of.
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)
He was a Whig squire, a plain country gentleman, with enough of culture to love good pictures and the ancient classics, but delighting chiefly in sports and agriculture, hard drinking and politics.
From The Conquest of New France A chronicle of the colonial wars by Wrong, George McKinnon
