Explore Drinking through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like drink or consumption. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Drinking meaning
An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.
Synonyms of Drinking
Using Drinking
- The main meaning on this page is: An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.
- Useful related words include: imbibing, intemperance, crapulence, drunkenness.
- In the example corpus, drinking often appears in combinations such as: drinking water, drinking and, of drinking.
Example sentences (20)
Drinking less is advised as binge drinking or long-term drinking above the recommended limits can massively increase your risk of having a heart attack.
Other more practical factors beyond personality involved alcohol drinking habits, such as rarely drinking or drinking too much, never exercising, scoring low on physical tests, having lower cognitive abilities or having functional limitations.
While drinking any alcohol can increase one’s cancer risk, she says heavy drinking and binge drinking pose the greatest risks.
Compared with drinking twice per week (reference group), drinking every day was the riskiest, with a hazard ratio (HR) of 1.412, while drinking once a week was the least risky (HR 0.933), the researchers found.
Drinking card games seeAlso Drinking card games are, true to their name, a subset of drinking games using cards, in which the object in playing the game is either to drink or to force others to drink.
Live drinking games such as Los Angeles-based "A Drinking Game" citation involve recreating films of the 80s in a "Rocky Horror" fashion, with gift bags, drinking cues, and costumed actors.
A group of men in overalls were drinking coffee at a brown plastic table outside a bar, while a heavily made-up woman sat alone at another table drinking a glass of red wine.
Change your drink: Drinking is another big factor in smoking for many people, even those who don’t habitually smoke can be tempted by one or two when they’re drinking socially, but by changing your choice of drink you can reduce the temptation.
Excessive drinking also includes heavy drinking, which is defined as eight or more drinks per week for women and 15 or more for men.
For young people, zero-alcohol products could serve as a gateway for drinking and send a message underage drinking is acceptable.
I find not drinking too much caffeine and not drinking too much alcohol – alcohol is the worst for me.
More than a third (35%) of adults across the UK report binge drinking at least once a month and only Romania and Denmark have worse heavy drinking rates.
Nicotine use and binge drinking: The research also reveals a correlation between nicotine use and binge drinking.
Reducing sediment is crucial to maximize Lake Monroe’s lifespan, the sole drinking water source for Bloomington, which serves 150,000 drinking water customers.
Studies have shown that drinking 500ml of water before your meal can not only increase your metabolism but also lead to greater weight loss than not drinking any water.
A person who isn’t naturally inclined to drink heavily will likely return to moderate drinking once they leave the heavy-drinking environment.
Born December 2, 199,8 in Chicago, Juice Wrld seemed to either be drinking and doing drugs or singing about drinking and doing drugs (or doing both simultaneously).
Christou emphasises the importance of educating consumers on responsible drinking practices, including preventing underage consumption and addressing drinking and driving issues.
Drinking from plastic bottles may be poisonous to your health — and drinking straight from the tap might save your life.
First of all, it will poison our drinking water with selenium and other hazardous chemicals – drinking water that is crucial to life in the southern part of Alberta and a large part of Saskatchewan.
Common combinations with drinking
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- drinking water 68×
- drinking and 22×
- of drinking 22×
- binge drinking 13×
- and drinking 11×
- for drinking 9×
- are drinking 8×
- while drinking 7×
- drinking is 7×
- to drinking 6×