Sentence examples for nondrinker from inspiring English sources
noun
One who does not drink alcohol; a teetotaler
- Passage=A majority of adolescents (66%) believe that an adolescent who changed from heavy drinker to nondrinker will be accepted by nondrinkers/moderate drinkers.
Harry Decker also seems to have been a nondrinker, yet his bizarre crimes prompted The Chicago Tribune to report in 1893: "Decker's hallucination is that he owns the city of Chicago.
"There is a perception almost that you're impotent," said one nondrinker, an editor at a liquor-focused lifestyle magazine who asked not to be identified because many of his co-workers don't know he recently entered a 12-step program.
… A woman who drinks moderately or heavily is more likely to smoke, use drugs and physically abuse her child than a nondrinker, all of which could worsen her son's or daughter's prognosis independent of alcohol.
Well, we we've been swamped with good ideas from readers, some of which I want to pass along: Have the nondrinker ask for his own tab or let the drinkers cover the nondrinker's portion of the tip.
I'm a nondrinker, but what I wouldn't have paid just for a sip of Thai beer.
Reportedly a nondrinker, Mr. Murphy said he needed one.
What's more, since alcohol abusers tend to die sooner than moderate or nondrinkers, they draw less money, over time, from the Social Security trust fund.
Although numerous studies have confirmed that light to moderate drinkers have less heart disease and tend to live longer than either nondrinkers or heavy drinkers, increasing chronic alcohol consumption carries with it significant risks as well: liver disease; pancreatitis; suicide; hemorrhagic stroke; mouth, esophageal, liver, and colorectal cancers; and probably breast cancer.
Though alcohol has, for the moment, become a national issue, there is little evidence that it is a majority one: nondrinkers are widely believed to greatly outnumber drinkers here.
After controlling for numerous health, educational and family history factors, the researchers found that women who drank one-half to one ounce of alcohol a day were 28 percent more likely than nondrinkers to achieve successful aging.
Still, research supports the idea that nondrinkers have a harder time climbing the corporate ladder.
