Sentence examples for been drinking for years from inspiring English sources

It must have started while growing up in the middle of rural nowhere, where the real rite of passage wasn't turning 18 – we'd all been drinking for years anyway – but turning 17 and starting driving lessons.

"If certain products can make these unsettling claims, what does that then say about the milk my family has been drinking for years?" Jerry Kozak, president of the National Milk Producers Federation, a trade group, said in his monthly message to members for September.

She's been drinking for years".

"I have a magnum of 1988 Bordeaux I've been drinking for ten years".

"I've been drinking for 35 years, just for relief, to fall asleep, because I've never felt comfortable for one hour in my life," he told me one evening, downing half a bottle of whiskey.

I went when I was doing a movie called 'I Know Who Killed Me,' and I hadn't been drinking for a year at that point, but I was having really bad nightmares and the movie was pretty traumatizing.

But aquavit, which the Danes have been drinking for some 500 years, is different.

Sometimes an old codger who has been drinking for many, many years fails to come in for a few days.

"Social media?" he's saying, same pint of bitter he's been drinking for 15 straight years, suspended in awe halfway between the table and his mouth, "what's that?" For the purposes of this bit, you work in social media.

And it may well be -- to someone who has been drinking wine for years and knows what to look for in a 20-year-old Bordeaux.

You've been drinking it for years, and if you still enjoy it, well I'd like to remind you to buy it again sometime soon.