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

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

Dr. Gettler took the brains, blood and liver of animals and humans who had never drunk spirituous beverages.

From Time Magazine Archive

All grocers who sell sugar, coffee, and spirituous liquors, pay a tax in Indiana, as well as publicans.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp