Sentence examples for teetotaling from inspiring English sources
The word 'teetotaling' is a correct and acceptable word in written English
It is a verb form of the word 'teetotaler,' which refers to a person who completely abstains from alcohol. You can use the word 'teetotaling' when discussing someone's behavior or lifestyle of abstaining from alcohol. Example: "John has been teetotaling for years now, ever since he realized the negative impact alcohol was having on his health."
adjective
Abstaining from alcohol.
— Glenn Collins The Paris Review: The liquor writer Alia Akkam recalls her teetotaling Middle Eastern father's curious decision to build a basement bar in their home.
In 1893, a teetotaling faction of Australia's labor movement created Nueva Australia, which survives to this day.
Hunt partied hard — archival photographs inevitably show him bookended by women, his gaze nestled in their décolletage — while Lauda assumed the role of the frosty, teetotaling tactician.
They gave him a little whiskey, which the teetotaling general resisted before drinking.
The president has bought a beer-making kit for the White House, and on the stump professes his love of the brew, drawing a contrast with the teetotaling Mitt Romney and hoping to forge a liquid bond with the middle class.
Later in the first decade of the new century, though, an influx of bold young women, allergic to the old pieties about female purity and comfortable working with men, displaced their moralistic, teetotaling elders.
This week, the dispute went to America's Supreme Court.Coincidentally, this was the same week, in 1933, that America ended its 15-year experiment with teetotalling by passing the 21st amendment and so laid the foundation for today's mess.
Spielberg cast Lewis as Lieutenant Dick Winters, a teetotalling Mennonite from Ephrata, Pennsylvania.
Bill Marriott, the conservative, teetotalling chairman of Marriott International, has said that he doesn't support same-sex marriage.
Doonan and Adler, who were married in San Francisco in September, 2008, and have been together for fourteen years, adhere to a monklike regimen of exercise, teetotalling, and tea-drinking.
In the raffish, New York City-centered brotherhood of cartoonists, he was an antisocial, teetotalling, non-smoking oddity.
