bibulous

Example Sentences

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Charlotte Rampling straddles dry humor and withering tragedy as a bibulous grandmother in “Juniper.”

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2023

He was born in 1972, and was brought up in a housing project in South London, the youngest of four boys, with a strict English mother and a bibulous Irish Catholic father.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

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

From Washington Times • Sep. 15, 2018

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

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2015

Into the parlor of Knickerbocker House, dubbed Knickerbocker Mansion some years after the bibulous Sir William Howe had laid down his sceptre as ruler of the town, the chorus of bells crashed.

From The ghosts of their ancestors by Mills, Weymer Jay