Sentence examples for toper from inspiring English sources

"By the standards of days gone by I was not even remotely a toper, and I couldn't do lunchtime drinking except on Christmas Day, but if you took the thing everyone always lies about — units per week — I was definitely at the outer limit," he writes.

Crop, hop, Coca, lyme, toper.

This young toper has a heart of gold, but little else in the way of that particular metal.

By the standards of days gone by I was not even remotely a toper, and I couldn't do lunchtime drinking except on Christmas Day, but if you took the thing everyone lies about – units per week – I was definitely at the other limit.

His drinks column for the Observer's food magazine was an engaging confection of wit, doom and fantasy, as it would be from a such a seasoned toper.

Karl Johnson as an unreliable toper drifts through the action in a befuddled haze.

Such topers account for a large share of consumption: in Scotland 80% of alcohol is drunk by 30% of boozers.

British and American topers may not be drinking more bottles of wine but they are drinking pricier ones.

The resulting price-rise should cut the consumption of hard-up heavy topers (who are particularly partial to dirt-cheap supermarket booze) and young drinkers, who can afford only what's cheap.The alcohol industry and its government allies note that intervention would hurt some products such as cheap wine.

Hals's relentless jolliness isn't confined to his genre scenes of rollicking topers, such as "Young Man and Woman in an Inn" (1623).

The slaphappy topers in "Merry Company" (circa 1630-31) are too merry by half, to my mind.