Sentence examples for I knocked back from inspiring English sources

On my first visit to a German Christmas market I knocked back a couple of mugfuls to keep out the cold, toppled over on the icy cobbles and fell flat on my face.

And although it pleased me to try to live up to their starry-eyed vision of the English rose they assumed I was (they were shocked at how I knocked back whiskey, for example), occasionally it worried me that one day they would visit London, be rained on getting the open-top to Madame Tussauds, or be served soggy fish and chips by a rude waiter.

I knocked back my drink and went back to my rented room.

In order to fix that, I knocked back about some beer in a bar in the neighborhood, before finding the courage to get in line.

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A couple of the women looked longingly at me and one started to massage my shoulders as I knocked back a celebratory vodka soda.

If I knock back a cocktail at 30,000 feet, will it knock me out?

I knock back a large mug of it and everything goes warm and fuzzy.

I piss my plans up the wall and wreck my well-thought-out ideas on a near-daily basis; I knock back tequilas when a deadline is looming, I blank important emails, I test the strength of my relationships, and shrug sleep away at 3am when I know I have to do something that scares me the next day.

A couple of the women look hopefully at me and one starts to massage my shoulders as I knock back a celebratory vodka soda.

I know part of that was my fault, because I didn't always ask for help as I was ashamed, but when I did I was knocked back and so you think, 'Is everyone going to say no?'".