cocktail

Example Sentences

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Manhattanite Alexis Candee said with those prices, she can make four drinks for the price of one cocktail.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Allergy expert Professor Stephen Till, from Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals in London, recommends "a cocktail approach", which means taking:

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

The brand new, 65-person cocktail bar is the brainchild of celebrated bartender Jeff Bell, known for his work at the pioneering Please Don’t Tell, or PDT, in New York’s East Village.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

If an old girlfriend buys you a set of cocktail glasses from a flea market, those glasses will always evoke thoughts of that person.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

She pictured herself in the cocktail dress, and Dev in one of his suits, kissing her hand across the table.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri