Sentence examples for except drink from inspiring English sources

"There was nothing to do in those towns except drink and tinker," Mr. Gurstelle said.

He took a gaggle of young men, who previously thought they could do nothing with aplomb except drink, and turned them into a tenor section.

On the dust jackets of his books, he would typically describe himself as "an accomplished fencer, a fair shot with most weapons," or "abstemious in all things except drink, food, tobacco and talking".

Hardly surprising, since this was a bar, after all, and what do people do at bars except drink, and one drink leads to another — and if you're in a certain frame of mind, I suppose, you don't stop for a day or two, or maybe more.

And by give up I mean, no exceptions, except one drink each, on two events in the entire year, my hubby's birthday and mine.

A perfect place to do absolutely nothing except eat, drink, sleep, get massaged and play in the water.

Nick and I have, over the years, argued gently about politics, except when drink has been taken and frankly, alcohol can turn any discussion into a war.

Locked in a mountain hut while high winds or blizzard conditions temporarily close lifts, there is not much to do except eat, drink and be merry.

And guests will ogle Steve Spraragen, an actor dressed as Uncle Sam in a gold G-string, as he repeats the recruiting slogan: "I Want You!" "There's not too much to do between when the polls close and the results come in, except to drink yourself into a stupor," said Whitney Pastorek, 25, who heads the Americana Project.

As Campbell points out, his subject led an extraordinarily pampered life and if he had a great deal of time to read and write "it was because there was literally nothing else he was required to do except eat, drink and talk".

All the items were on the till except the drink.