Sentence examples for dying of drink from inspiring English sources
Sarah Playforth, Seaford Be prepared to feel guilty I think my mother still suffers from guilt that she couldn't do more to stop my uncle (her brother) from slowly dying of drink (he died 14 years ago, in his fifties).
Saying that Manhattan and central London share the same problems is like saying that a man dying of drink in London is like one doing the same in Manhattan.
The 5th original member, Ron (Pigpen) McKernan, died of drink in 1973.
He did not die "of drink" but of complications from undiagnosed TB affecting his brain.
In a subsequent TV programme his widow asserted that he had died of drink.
One of his sisters, Catherine, died of drink in her 30s, and the other was in and out of mental institutions all her life.
Beneath the calm surface you sense the violence, with women on the edge, like widows who die of drink, or devouring characters like Nur, the decadent Urdu poet of In Custody.
Ivan's dad was a brilliant Soviet scientist who defected to the west only to be unjustly accused of espionage by Stark Sr . Returnedhome, he was incarcerated in the gulag and died of drink in Putin's squalid Moscow.
You can open his diaries almost at random and find lines like: "I shall die of drink and makeup"; "It was a piece of glottal cake"; "We are cosmic jokes"; "I was gonged down by a highway patrolman for exceeding the speed limit"; "There are few pleasures to match tipsiness in this murderous world".
