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Alcoholic in sentence

161 examples of Alcoholic in a sentence

In his 20s, he was a hotshot ad executive, and as Mad Men has told us, a raging alcoholic.
I want this book to look like it's lying to you, desperately and hopelessly, the way an alcoholic would.
An example I often give is that, if I ever get bored being a professor, I'm going to go start a company that predicts all of these attributes and things like how well you work in teams and if you're a drug user, if you're an alcoholic.
George was actually an alcoholic when they married, and Mary knew it.
As he stood before me reading his essay, his voice cracking and his hands trembling, he said that he worried that he had become an alcoholic like his mom, who had died a couple of months prior due to alcohol-related liver disease.
What do you think would happen if you invited an individual who had been living on the street for many years, had mental health issues and was an alcoholic to move directly from the street into housing?
She had been on the street for 20-plus years, had mental health issues and was a severe alcoholic.
But to be fair, chemical engineers as a group haven't really earned a reputation over the centuries for being alcoholic manic-depressives.
Kevin Carroll came from extremely deprived circumstances: alcoholic mother, absent father, inner-city Philadelphia, black, had to take care of a younger brother.
Another example is alcoholic beverages.
Thirty-five percent to 40 percent of consumption in alcoholic beverages around the world actually happens with women, but, you know, "women don't drink beer."
This unwitting ape has stumbled on a process that humans will eventually harness to create beer, wine, and other alcoholic drinks.
As the yeasts feed on the fruit sugars they produce a compound called ethanol— the type of alcohol in alcoholic beverages.
The earliest known evidence comes from 7,000 BCE in China, where residue in clay pots has revealed that people were making an alcoholic beverage from fermented rice, millet, grapes, and honey.
I lived with an alcoholic father who beat me and molested me, and it was all inside that.
Every country has a contextual alcoholic drink.
In Los Angeles, the alcoholic and lazy Hank Chinaski (Matt Dillon) performs a wide range of non-qualified functions just to get enough money to drink and gamble in horse races.
A young and healthy boy who doesn't want to work and prefer to live in a decaying shack with a feckless alcoholic aunt.
And what kind of an alcoholic tends to drink with the bottle held about 8 inches from his hungry mouth so that the contents generally spill all over his face?
"The Racketeer" stars Carol (deprived of the "e" that usually appeared at the end of her first name) Lombard as a woman thrown out of society because she left her husband for a concert violinist (Roland Drew) who has since become a down-and-out alcoholic, and torn between her love for him and the interest of New York crime kingpin Robert Armstrong (top-billed).
This movie is poor and what's more it's a disgrace to all the lonely, alcoholic Southern literature professors out there.
Williamson is a Dakota Smith, an alcoholic cop who is demoted to scrubbing toilets with a toothbrush and even worse having to team up with Cynthia at the behest of the captain (Robert Forster).
This is a movie to sit and make fun of- but only with lots of alcoholic drinks and witty friends.
He is also a raging alcoholic, and this has caused his job performance to decline.
When suddenly, without reason, you are forced to watch close ups of "charismatic" looking hungarian country people in their boats, while the soundtrack is trying to persuade you that this is supposed to be a dramatic moment, although they are only on the way to the funeral of the local alcoholic, thats one thing.
He reminds me of an over-weight alcoholic man than the boogeyman that struck fear in our hearts back in the original.
In fact he was mainly an alcoholic and pill popper who rarely took drugs via syringe.
You had an Entertainment Manager (Simon Cadel) being pursued by his deputy played by Ruth Madoc, a cleaning lady wanting to become a yellow coat, an alcoholic child-hating Punch and Judy man, a bent Jockey, and a stand up comedian.
Working the night shift in a seedy police station, stumbling through life in an alcoholic haze, Detective Mickey Hayden can hardly be said to have a firm grasp on reality to begin with, but when a bump on the head unleashes terrifying psychic visions, things get truly weird.
Poor family in 50's mid America, dying mother, alcoholic father, 10 children (1 of whom has epilepsy) and an awful decision to be made.
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