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

Dr. Gettler took the brains, blood and liver of animals and humans who had never drunk spirituous beverages.

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

Gentlemen,—I return to your honorable body the act entitled “An Act to regulate the manufacture and sale of wine and distilled spirituous liquors,” with my objections to the same.

From A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by Gray, William Henry