bibulous

Example Sentences

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Colorado - really its farmers and ranchers - are stewards for increasingly bibulous downstream states.

From Washington Times • Sep. 15, 2018

Old-school voters expecting him to reinstate the fading habit of the long and bibulous lunch may have to wait.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2017

Dougherty’s bibulous, quick-footed turn is terrific — right at Mendenhall’s and Ingvarsson’s level.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2015

Less well known is his nickname, “Tommy Two Dinners,” coined after a bibulous lunch at the Gay Hussar that somehow merged into dinner.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2015

The first schoolmaster sent to New Netherland arrived in 1633 at the same time as Bogardus, and represented the cause of education even less creditably than did the bibulous domine that of religion.

From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Goodwin, Maud Wilder