hard drinking

Example Sentences

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There is McAvoy's hard drinking, watery-eyed boss, played by Sam Waterston, who defends the show to the relentlessly commercial, highly nepotistic and unguardedly stupid cable owners.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2012

Almost without exception they were well along in years�men who had spent the best part of their lives in hard riding on the range and in hard drinking afterwards, bronzed and heavy-handed titans.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the group that surrounded him was our old acquaintance, Judge Edward McGowan—Ned McGowan—jolly, hard drinking, oily, but not as noisy as usual.

From The Gray Dawn by White, Stewart Edward

There were a good many guests in the house at times, almost invariably men, but none of the wild revels of the old days, very little hard drinking, and no play to speak of.

From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)

Sixty years had written their story of hard work at sea, and hard drinking on shore, on the veteran's grim and wrinkled face.

From No Name by Collins, Wilkie