Example sentences for: alcoholic

How can you use “alcoholic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Resort hotels were built to attract Americans escaping the northern winter (and the Prohibition laws against alcoholic beverages).

  • Critics praise director Ken Loach's departure from agitprop filmmaking: "a pleasant surprise--there's no overt political content" just "a delightful, heartwarming, grown-up love story" (Jonathan Foreman, the New York Post ) about a recovering alcoholic in Glasgow, Scotland, putting his life back together.

  • Considering his abusive, alcoholic stepfather, his substance abusing brother, his mother's penchant for gambling, and his own compulsive eating and alleged womanizing, Clinton's family looked like a case study in a codependency book.

  • Jason Hudgins, a chronic runaway who has done every drug imaginable, been molested, and assaulted members of his family, grew up with two alcoholic parents who violently beat him and a mother who was herself battered and raped.

  • Both mean FEV 1 % and FVC% (corrected for age, weight and gender) were highest among participants who consumed various alcoholic beverages or wine only.


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