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
Their faces were flushed as if by hard drinking, and their pimpled noses resembled huge red barnacles.
From Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by Ozawa
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
After a period distinguished by hard drinking and hard eating, has come a period of comparative sobriety, which, in teetotalism and vegetarianism, exhibits extreme forms of protest against the riotous living of the past.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
Sixty years had written their story of hard work at sea, and hard drinking on shore, on the veteran's grim and wrinkled face.
From No Name by Wilkie Collins
