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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

If Eruption should suddenly retreat, or strike in, heating, soporific, spirituous and volatile Remedies should carefully be avoided: but the Patient may drink plentifully of the Infusion Nº.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)