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How to use the word alcoholic in a Sentence?

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It’s a convergence of two fast-growing segments within the beverage alcohol space that have a lot of runway for growth: Zero proof and canned cocktails, people want better non-alcoholic options without sacrificing flavor.

Brandy Rand

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s growing faster than any other category of beverage. The data doesn’t lie, but look at the best bars and restaurants and you’ll have all the validation you need, the days of O’Douls being your option are over. You can legitimately order a zero-proof cocktail at PDT, Death Scott Noughty Non-Alcoholic Sparkling Chardonnay Noughty Noughty is a must-try non-alcoholic wine brand. It does still and sparkling wines remarkably well, and Bodkins recommends the red, as well as the sparkling Chardonnay and Rosé.

Nick Bodkins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Just like many may choose to have a glass of water in between cocktails, some non-alcoholic beverages provide an alternative for drinkers when they want to moderate or feel like enjoying a drink without the alcohol by volume, ultimately non-alcoholic drinks are mostly formulated to taste like familiar adult beverages, giving many consumers an occasional substitute, not necessarily an outright replacement.

Taylor Berry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The effects of alcohol and alcoholic beverages are so complicated, so complex.

Robert Swift

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I've seen this a million times, where alcoholic parents then feel guilty because they were drinking and carrying on and fighting and everything while raising the kid, and their guilt causes them to be enablers, and what that all means with him is, I don’t know everything because all the information isn’t out there, but that could create a situation where the father would be enabling him by helping him purchase the rifle.

John Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Alcoholic beverages affect your brain’s communication pathways to a great extent. It becomes difficult for a person who drinks a lot of alcohol to remember things and process new data while leaving him depressed and disordered easily, to avoid such damage to the brain, women should not drink more than one glass of alcohol and men should stick to two glasses in a day.

Susan Kelly

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Consumers are already using the non-alcoholic Simply brand as part of their mixology regiment, so, bringing that into the ready-to-drink space was a no-brainer.

Jamie Wideman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I travel from upstate to Brooklyn a lot, and on the bus they say it's a federal crime to smoke or have an alcoholic beverage unless by prior written contest, and I always wondered where you get that consent.

Floyd Hayes

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It made sense to [ utilize ] the capacity into the non-alcoholic space as we work our way into California.

Michael Hayford

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The growth has really shocked us, the growth was coming from that whole non-alcoholic beer category.

Niki Sawni

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Beer would result in less water loss than whiskey, because you are ingesting more fluid with beer, strong alcoholic drinks will dehydrate, dilute alcoholic drinks will not.

Ronald Maughan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

People with PTSD tend to act out. They tend to self-medicate. Which means they're going to be on drugs or they may be an alcoholic. And then they're going to get into fights and they have a really short fuse. And guess what happens ? All of a sudden you don't qualify for VA. That's wrong because again we are not taking into account the way we have designed or enforcing the system the realities of that person's life. It's backwards !

Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The nice thing about the alcoholic beverage industry is that people tend to drink in good times — and in bad.

Linda Montag

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Nearly half -- 45 % -- of all non-alcoholic beverages contain 0 %( sugar).

Christopher Gindlesperger

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I’m an award-winning alcoholic, i shouldn’t be getting an award; Phoenix House should be getting an award.

Matthew Perry

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

There is certainly danger in enjoying alcoholic seltzer regularly.

Rachel Stahl

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I wish this had been available when I quit drinking 26 years ago because as a recovering alcoholic, I believe CBD coffee would have greatly smoothed my transition to society.

Ian Ford

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

When I watch that film back, I can see where I was then, which was fairly lost, and unhappy, and an alcoholic.

Simon Pegg

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Any person – Republican, Democrat or independent—who has known me for any period of time and has any integrity knows two things: I am a good man and I’m an alcoholic, this is the hardest statement that I have ever publicly made by far. It’s also the truth.

Tom Garrett

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

All alcoholic beverages affect every person differently.

Dave Steiner

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Recently I took my son for a college tour in the Midwest … I ate what I felt like eating, i realize if I was still living in Ohio that I ’d be 30 pounds heavier and an alcoholic. There’s something about being there that makes me want to drink beer all day, eat cheese fries and eat stuffed French toast for breakfast.

Patricia Heaton

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I really should be able to sort of creatively describe my happy hour the way I want to, i should be able to use the words ‘ Half-Price Wine Night, ’ I should be able to use ‘ Friday Fun Day, ’ but I can't. I can only use happy hour and drink specials, and I can't tell you what thepricesof any single one of my alcoholic beverages that I serve during happy hour. That is absurd and it doesn't make any sense.

Geoff Tracy

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I was a chronic, severe alcoholic for several years, i had to recover and, happily, I did. Ben has always been serious about getting sober. There is no question about that. He wants a balanced life and he is working at it.

Timothy Affleck

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Read MoreHodges revealed in 2014 that Read MoreHodges was an alcoholic who had taken Read MoreHodges last drink as a college student, more than 25 years earlier, MinnPost reported. With Read MoreHodges first term ending in November, Hodges, 47, is now locked in a tough reelection battle against several challengers. Two of her key political opponents joined others in voicing their support for Hodges' Facebook post, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.Community conversationHaving a public figure like Hodges come forward is particularly powerful, i think this has brought this almost unavoidable conversation into public space.

Sarah Super

Found on CNN
6 years ago

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