LIQUOR in a Sentence

Learn LIQUOR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

44 example sentences for LIQUOR, such as:

1. There's a liquor store across the street.
2. The restaurant finally obtained a liquor licence.
3. She drank the liquor from the glass as a man would have done.
4. Drinking too much alcoholic liquor often depraves a person's character.
5. Magua foolishly opened his mouth, and the hot liquor led him into the cabin of Munro.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIQUOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
liquor
 n.  any liquid, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice; alcoholic or spirituous fluid
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  And raising good cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one's liquor like a gentleman were the things that mattered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  His hat was gone, his crisp long hair was tumbled in a white mane, his cravat was under one ear, and there were liquor stains down his shirt bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  He was drunk and showing it and she had never before seen him show his liquor, no matter how much he drank.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
4  He was not drinking as he had formerly, becoming increasingly more polished and biting as the liquor took hold of him, saying amusing, malicious things that made her laugh in spite of herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
5  By dusk, the liquor warehouses, Hebraic clothing-shops, and lodging-houses on lower Hennepin Avenue were smoky, hideous, ill-tempered.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
7  She drank the liquor from the glass as a man would have done.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
8  So there came a time when nearly all the conscious life of Jurgis consisted of a struggle with the craving for liquor.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
9  He was a big, red-faced Irishman, coarse-featured, and smelling of liquor.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
10  Magua foolishly opened his mouth, and the hot liquor led him into the cabin of Munro.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
11  He had liquor in him; I could see that; and besides, he always has.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  The accidental discovery, just made, that the proprietor of the Temperance Tavern kept liquor on his premises, scarcely fluttered the public pulse, tremendous as the fact was.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
13  Then nothing but liquor had been found; there would have been a great powwow if it had been the gold.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
14  They poured out the liquor, and made the most friendly gesticulations; while a cold perspiration trickled down the back of the poor Councillor.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
15  Now all this time the ale was running too, for Catherine had not turned the cock; and when the jug was full the liquor ran upon the floor till the cask was empty.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In FREDERICK AND CATHERINE
Example Sentence:
1  Drinking too much alcoholic liquor often depraves a person's character.
2  The restaurant finally obtained a liquor licence.
3  There's a liquor store across the street.
4  If you study the numbers closely, you see that liquor is probably wildly popular with women in their 20s, and unpopular with men the same age.