drinking
IPA: drˈɪŋkɪŋ
noun
- An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.
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Examples of "drinking" in Sentences
- Drinking alcohol can cause serious disease.
- Contrastingly, she also likes nightclubs, drinking, food, and partying.
- The church required abstention from the eating of meat or drinking of alcohol.
- Intemperate drinking is ever the result of what has been misnamed _temperate drinking_.
- I'd like to discuss in this article the way you "think yourself into drinking" -- what I call "drinking thinking."
- We see where his drinking is at, he tells Megan, "I need a favor, make sure I don't over do it," which means, "stop me at 3."
- All drinkers begin socially, and this drinking is accompanied by a thousand social connotations such as I have described out of my own experience in the first part of this narrative.
- NIAAA officials say that in recognizing a drinking problem, the label "alcoholic" is less important than harmful patterns of drinking, which they describe as drinking too much, too fast or too much, too often
- According to Litten, high risk drinking behavior - which he defines as drinking more then five drinks in one night for men and drinking more then three drinks for women - can lead to longer term effects in this younger age group including dependency.
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