Example sentences for: bourbon

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

  • It may also explain the expression "scared stiff" (in the sense of tumescent, not in the sense of immobilized by drunken overindulgence in a gift bottle of bourbon that one never received).

  • The sagging flesh on that square head encases small, babyish features, and the belching sounds that come out of that barrel chest are like an infant's squalls after a thousand shots of bourbon and 10 times that many cigarettes.

  • The Archduke Charles of Austria rivalled France’s Philip of Bourbon, designated to ascend the throne, in the ensuing War of the Spanish Succession.

  • On the lookout for any contagiously progressive movement, the Austrians helped Bourbon King Ferdinand of Naples crush an 1821 revolt for constitutional monarchy and foiled a similar uprising in Piedmont.

  • Then some Virginia farmer slipped a bag of cash to his senator, and we all went out and drank bourbon until we puked all over the store-bought shoes of a Philip Morris lobbyist.


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