prohibitionist

Example Sentences

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The Senators owner, a prohibitionist through and through, made things harder on himself by subsisting without a source of revenue that other teams availed themselves of.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2023

Most of the shops are to be operated by people of color who had been incarcerated by prohibitionist laws.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2023

Mr. Sweanor emphasized that he’s not a prohibitionist.

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2023

Allegations of a secret prohibitionist government agenda were fuelled last year when former state premier Mick Baird posted an impassioned defence of the lockouts on Facebook.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2017

Georgia, in its early years, is to have the solitary honor of being an antislavery and prohibitionist colony.

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey