Word Finder - drinking

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To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.

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He drank the water I gave him.

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(metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).

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Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.

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To consume alcoholic beverages.

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Everyone who is drinking is drinking, but not everyone who is drinking is drinking.

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To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.

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To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.

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To smoke, as tobacco.

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An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.

I think she's drinking.

Dean spent the evening alone, drinking too much beer.

He continued to sip his beer, then added, "Besides, you shouldn't be drinking and driving."

Drinking on duty, Officer?

When she spells "milk," she points to the mug, and when she spells "mug," she makes the sign for pouring or drinking, which shows that she has confused the words.

Drinking became more and more a physical and also a moral necessity.

One minute he'd be drinking in the beauty of the countryside and the next feeling a wave of anxiety, realizing what had begun as a mild suspicion was close to culminating in a face-to-face confrontation with Jeffrey Byrne.

I don't know whose bones were in the Lucky Pup Mine, but Josh Mulligan died in 1987 of cirrhosis of the liver from drinking too much.

I told him that was nonsense and he had no business drinking at his age.

I have to stop this drinking!

Drinking her blood was a different kind of experience.

She went through the nightstands, drawers and closets then ducked out to make sure he was still drinking coffee on the porch.

After an hour, she gave up and sat in the living area, drinking coffee.

Xander tore out the throat of this one with his fangs, drinking deeply before tossing the body.

So long as the conventionalities were preserved she endured it, but when her husband took to drinking and made love to the maids under her very eyes she resolved to break a yoke that had grown intolerable.

Eusebius quotes from him the resurrection of a dead person 4 in the experience of "Philip the Apostle" - who had resided in Hierapolis, and from whose daughters Papias derived the story - and also the drinking of poison ("when put to the test by the unbelievers," says Philip of Side, by "Justus, surnamed Barsabbas") without ill effect.'

It would have been humiliating if anyone had noticed, but no one seemed to pay much attention – probably because so many others were also drinking.

Had he been drinking?

How long could she live like this, drinking someone else's blood?

Did Fitzgerald give you the pint bottles of vodka you were drinking the other night?

Have you been drinking?

Connor said, Jesus, it's not even nine o'clock yet and you're drinking.

What are the down sides of drinking?

There wasn't much left to Saturday but the time was spent lounging around, munching on Chinese takeout and drinking Coors beer.

You're not drinking those awful manhattans are you?

A good supply of drinking water was brought to the city by Fetid Pasha, who governed the vilayet ably for several years, till in 1903 he was appointed Grand Vizier.

The very cattle are trained to go a long time without drinking.

I don't recall ever being in a department store, drinking from the water fountain, and having the staff look at me disapprovingly because I was running up the water bill.

These men, who under the leadership of the tall lad were drinking in the dramshop that morning, had brought the publican some skins from the factory and for this had had drink served them.

Here and now for the first time he fully appreciated the enjoyment of eating when he wanted to eat, drinking when he wanted to drink, sleeping when he wanted to sleep, of warmth when he was cold, of talking to a fellow man when he wished to talk and to hear a human voice.

I would like to emphasize the importance of drinking plenty of water while you hike.

In several places the debris within the walls is saturated with sewage, and the water of the Fountain of the Virgin, and of many of the old cisterns, is unfit for drinking.

The mineral springs, which belong to the adjoining abbey of Tepl, are eight in number, and are used both for bathing and drinking, except the Marienquelle, which is used only for bathing.

In the 15th-century town hall (Rathaus) is preserved the golden drinking cup of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, which was taken at the battle of Nancy in 1477.

Molart and Empser, drinking each other's health in the midst of the cannonade, were killed by the same shot.

They had also much skill in the construction of works for the supply of drinking water on a large scale and for irrigation.

Far from being ambitious or scheming, he was lazy and selfindulgent, fond of eating and drinking, and owed his elevation to the throne to Caecina and Valens, commanders of two legions on the Rhine.

Sculptured panels, with conventional motives, peacocks, eagles devouring hares, peacocks drinking from a cup on a tall pillar, are let into both exterior and interior walls, as are roundels of precious marbles, sawn from columns of porphyry, serpentine, verd antique, &c. The adoption of veneer for decoration prohibited any deep cutting, and almost all the sculpture is shallow.

His drinking songs became famous under the name of Vaux-de-Vire, corrupted in modern times into "vaudeville."

In 1713 he had become somewhat notorious from his vigorous pamphleteering attack on the fashion of drinking healths, especially "to the glorious and immortal memory."

They Are Used For Drinking As Well As For Bathing Purposes.

There is, of course, no sewerage system, the surfaces of the streets serving that purpose, and what garbage and refuse is not consumed by the dog scavengers washes down into the Tigris at the same place from which the water for drinking is drawn.

In the crypt is the grave of a traveller, who succumbed to excessive drinking of the local wine known as Est, est, est.

The rooms and the drinking vessels in them were adorned with spring flowers, as were also the children over three years of age.

Drinking clubs met to drink off matches, the winner being he who drained his cup most rapidly.

The scorpion, attacking the genitals of the bull, is sent by Ahriman from the lower world to defeat the purpose of the sacrifice; the dog, springing towards the wound in the bull's side, was venerated by the Persians as the companion of Mithras; the serpent is the symbol of the earth being made fertile by drinking the blood of the sacrificial bull; the raven, towards which Mithras turns his face as if for direction, is the herald of the Sun-god, whose bust is near by, and who has ordered the sacrifice; various plants near the bull, and heads of wheat springing from his tail, symbolize the result of the sacrifice; the cypress is perhaps the tree of immortality.

By every skeleton were drinking vessels.

In the Kul Oba tomb mentioned above the chamber was of stone and the contents, with one or two exceptions, of purely Greek workmanship, but the ideas underlying are the same - the king has his wife, his servant and his horse, his amphorae with wine, his cauldron with mutton-bones, his drinking vessels and his weapons, the latter being almost the only objects of barbarian style.

The recognition of the dangers accompanying the drinking of polluted water or milk, or of those attached to the breathing of a germ-polluted atmosphere, has been the natural sequence of an improved knowledge of pathology in its bacteriological relationships.

He was sober enough (for his day and society) in eating and drinking generally; but drank coffee, as his contemporary, counterpart and enemy, Johnson, drank tea, in a hardened and inveterate manner.