Sentence examples for black drink from inspiring English sources
noun
A tea-like drink made by Native Americans, and then by others, having exhilarant and diuretic properties. It is thought to have been brewed with (yaupon) or leaves, although this is not certain.
Black and black Serves 4 You need a black drink to go with your black supper.
The Watts riots began on the 11th August 1965 following an argument over the arrest of a black drink driver.
Indian men consumed large portions of black drink brewed from toasted holly leaves and bark and boiled it in water.
Long ago, at a pre-Columbian ritual center across the Mississippi River from present-day St . Louis the home of Budweiser, people were heartily imbibing a caffeinated tealike beverage commonly known as "black drink".
As recently as the Civil War, Southerners were known to use the black drink as a pick-me-up, Dr. Crown said, and a few in South Carolina still like the holly caffeine's energy charge.
For the first time, researchers have now found direct evidence that the use of black drink goes back as early as A.D. 1050 at what is now Cahokia, Ill., which was the largest known pre-Columbian site north of Mexico.
Dutch customs agents last month seized 50,000 liters, or about 13,000 gallons, of illegal alcohol thought to be destined for Britain, the biggest haul of black-market drink ever in the Netherlands.
By 1950, fearing a backlash by white consumers, Pepsi had killed the program, but the image of Coke and Pepsi as "white" and "black" drinks lingered.
Instead of plastering the place with cutout red hearts and cupids, they covered the furniture in black fabric, made up platters of black food (olives, licorice, Oreos with the centers scraped out), served black drinks (black Russians, Johnny Walker Black) and played breakup music (Depeche Mode, the Smiths).
Black people drink," she said in an interview.
He even has a working name for a carbonated black currant drink aimed at teenagers: Electric Currant.
