10 sentences with 'alcohol'
Example sentences and phrases with the word alcohol and other words derived from it.
• « Since they were strongly opposed to alcohol and drug use, they wanted to show their classmates that there were healthier ways to have a good time. »
• « The important thing in all cases is to know that there are different types of alcohol drinkers. »
• « Some people drink alcohol only a few times a year, while others drink alcohol quite frequently, without becoming drunk, and never more than one or two drinks. These cases are not problematic. »
• « There is a danger of alcoholism also for those who drink a lot of alcohol at different times of the day. They drink alcohol before, during and after meals, almost every day of the week. »
• « The scourge of alcohol is not new: as far back as 1600, the Rhine Count Palatine Frederick V, through the Landgrave Moritz von Hessen, sponsored the establishment of the famous temperance societies. »
• « In 1968, the Social Court of the then Federal Republic of Germany officially recognised alcohol addiction as a disease. Among Germans in particular, the proportion of women who could technically be classified as alcoholics rose from a tenth of the population during the Second World War to a quarter to a third of the total at the beginning of the 1990s, due to crises of loneliness or lowered self-esteem. »
• « Submission to alcohol threads epochs and continents: the orgiastic frenzy of the Carioca carnival or the indigenous rituals that culminate in formidable drunkenness refer more distantly to the alienation and total loss of consciousness into which the Egyptians fell thanks to a precursor drink to beer, zitus. »
• « Some combination of his wounds, alcohol and exhaustion finally caught up with him. Allegedly, as he lay on his deathbed, his generals asked Alexander the Great who would follow him as Great King and he replied "the strongest", and then died. The results were predictable: decades of fighting as each general tried to seize the huge empire Alexander had forged. »
• « Thus, too often working-class men turned to alcohol as a solace; it is no coincidence that the first-wave feminist movement was closely linked to the temperance movement that sought the legal prohibition of alcohol. »
• « Moreover, most people did not think of money as something to "save" - in the good years when the average person somehow had "extra" money, they simply spent it on more food or, especially for men, on alcohol, because it was impossible to anticipate having a surplus again in the future. »