Sentence examples for drinking cities from inspiring English sources

Glasgow is one of the world's greatest and most hospitable drinking cities, even if the local dialect is often incomprehensible.

Various New Yorkers roundly agreed that theirs was a "drinking city," where people work and play hard, and often live like Peter Pan, putting off the trappings of adulthood, like marriage and children, for as long as possible.

Residents across the city had stopped drinking the city water in early 2015, and were forced to purchase bottled water out of their own pocket until state help arrived this month.

Meanwhile, residents across the city had stopped drinking the city water in early 2015, and were forced to purchase bottled water out of their own pocket until state help arrived this month.

Trieste became a coffee center, he explained as we tucked into some superlative cherrywood-smoked, hand-sliced raw ham at a table in the front of the cafe, because it was the most convenient transshipment point for beans arriving by sea from Africa, Brazil and elsewhere, bound not only for Italy but also for Vienna, one of the world's great coffee-drinking cities.

By no means are these folk bad people, and it's far from exclusive to these sorts of venues, but such is the drinking culture sewn into everyday life in the UK – but most specifically, hard-drinking cities like Glasgow – people are almost compelled to overindulge in alcohol, and thus the majority suspend any sense of manners or politeness as they impatiently line up for a bevy.

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