spirituous

Example Sentences

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"For the spirituous liquor industry, glass and key raw material ingredients for plastic closures are the main drivers of constraint," according to the statement.

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2021

In 1615, a German doctor suggested that “the hot and spirituous blood of a young man will pour into the old one as if it were from a fountain of youth.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017

The mere fact that neither "sport," in the modern sense, nor "spirituous liquors" had been invented when the Gods uttered their respective prohibitions is immaterial.

From Time Magazine Archive

At a cocktail party, the old-fashioned kind with fat-laced canap�s and spirituous liquors, some gaunt, counterculture Ph.D. brandished his glass of club soda and announced: "The body is the temple of the soul!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Some men are perfectly free as regards their attitude towards indulgence in spirituous liquors.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin