Sentence examples for dry counties. from inspiring English sources

Take "dry counties" (counties in which alcohol sales are restricted).

It sits in Moore County, one of the last dry counties in the country.

Around 6% of Americans live in dry counties or towns, largely in the evangelical South.

In 10 years it will look more like the alcohol business, with dry counties and wet counties.

Over the years, 15 other counties have evolved as mixed, or moist, with the largest cities authorized to go their own way within dry counties.

Americans, too, have a tumultuous history involving efforts to prohibit alcohol, and even today there are dry counties in the American South.

The town is in a dry county, and the nearest movie house is 30 miles away.

(It also lies in a dry county, which explains those bags and coolers).

The youngsters got a bottle of bootleg liquor, as this was a dry county.

Magnolia, in southern Arkansas near the Louisiana border, is the seat of a dry county.

Weir is in Choctaw County, a dry county, so there is no place to purchase alcoholic beverages.