spirituous
Example Sentences
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"For the spirituous liquor industry, glass and key raw material ingredients for plastic closures are the main drivers of constraint," according to the statement.
From Salon • Jul. 27, 2021
In 1615, a German doctor suggested that “the hot and spirituous blood of a young man will pour into the old one as if it were from a fountain of youth.”
From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017
An apparently genuine "treasure cipher," its decipherment and what ensued give to the tale an almost spirituous tang.
From Time Magazine Archive
At a cocktail party, the old-fashioned kind with fat-laced canap�s and spirituous liquors, some gaunt, counterculture Ph.D. brandished his glass of club soda and announced: "The body is the temple of the soul!"
From Time Magazine Archive
As I have already affirmed that Ulcers were often the Consequence of sharp and spirituous Dressings, it is evident such should be abstained from, without which Abstinence they will prove incurable.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
