drinking

Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.

Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.

Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.

Early on, the sexual protagonist complains that her Molson-drinking husband is pretty much an incompetent Neanderthal.

Nobody ever says they want to become a cop so they can bust people for urinating in public or drinking alcohol on their stoop.

Outside the hotel he came upon the two sisters sitting on a bench and drinking coffee.

A quite young child will, for example, pretend to do something, as to take an empty cup and carry out the semblance of drinking.

Smoking was called drinking tobacco, as the fashionable method was to "put it through the nose" or exhale it through the nostrils.

Smoking now is as common as eating and drinking, and to smoke amongst ladies is a vulgarity.

The French habit of coffee-drinking and the English habit of tea-drinking are also cases in point.