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What does drinking mean?

drinking

the act of consuming liquids (= drink) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess drink was his downfall

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Simple sentences

If you keep on drinking like that, you'll get sick.
He consumed all his income on drinking.
Father stopped drinking.
When I was a child, I was always drinking milk.
I'm drinking water because I'm thirsty.
She advised him to give up drinking.
What's your favorite cheese to eat when drinking wine?
Absorbing information on the internet is like drinking water from a fire hydrant.
You should stop drinking.
It's more fun than drinking tea.
The last time we all went out drinking, I was the designated driver.
I am drinking coffee at a cafe.
He's drinking water.
Melanie is drinking milk.
Drinking on an empty stomach is bad for your health.
Too much drinking will make your life a ruin.
I feel like drinking a beer.
If you go on drinking so much, you may well end up an alcoholic.
The inhabitants of the city depend upon the river for drinking water.
Would you please stop singing so loudly? This is not a cheap drinking place.
You must not indulge in drinking.
The Great Lakes supply drinking water.
I do not feel like drinking beer tonight.
He took to drinking after his wife left him.
My uncle kept on drinking in spite of his doctor's advice.
You should give up drinking.
You should give up drinking and smoking.
Too much drinking may be hazardous to your health.
Drinking and driving can be dangerous.
I got along so well with the guy sitting next to me at the pub that we ended up drinking together till dawn.

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I used to think drinking coffee was wrong.
Have you been drinking the water from the toilet?
Studying and drinking at the same time: good decision.
I drink anywhere, but I do my study-drinking here.
I thought we weren't drinking last night.
And whose father has a drinking problem.
I'm gonna end up in prison drinking toilet wine - 'cause Barry screwed up again.
Don't stop me drinking.
What are we drinking here?
And, who was he drinking champagne with last night?
Any idea who Evan might have been drinking champagne with?
While drinking champagne?
Ray Neilson is a bit weary, but he did mention Jared was seen drinking with Evan here the night before the parade.
Was he drinking dirty bastards too?
Aren't you drinking?
A vampire, Mr. Harker, is a being that lives after its death by drinking the blood of the living.
Very foreseeing of her to prevent my grandfather drinking this.
Gibson, you've been drinking again. and you know what my orders were.
You've been drinking again.
I'm not interfering with your drinking.
He must have been drinking.
Good drinking partners always make bad drivers.
They're drinking.
Smells like he could have been drinking benzene.
He's been drinking all day, and whenever he gets that way, he always gets ugly about Denny.
All he thought about was playing cards, fighting, drinking and chasing skirts!
What are you drinking?
Anything to do with the sherry you was drinking?
Drinking in the day time is fun.
You ought to cut out drinking so much coffee.
You use drinking water to wash your hands?.
He's been drinking all his life and he's 80 years old.
Ever since that night he talked to you when you were drinking.
You're going back to the cafe. and you're gonna start drinking with your pals again?
You've been drinking again?
Teach you to go out drinking.

News and current affairs

Meanwhile, the local population has remained impoverished and beset by diseases caused by unsafe air, poisoned drinking water, and pollution in the food chain.
A lack of micronutrients and clean drinking water will claim two million lives each.
For most of modern history, relatively inexpensive public health precautions, such as providing clean drinking water and routine vaccinations, have been the main factor pushing up life expectancy.
They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.
The MDG's also address the scourges of maternal death in childbirth, lack of access to safe drinking water, and killer diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS.
Other tropical diseases also can be controlled, and practical technologies for safe drinking water can dramatically reduce diarrheal diseases.
All the while, we know of the terrible conditions that still face the majority of the world's population, with more than a billion poor, two billion without electricity, and three billion without clean drinking water and sanitation.
In early August, an algal bloom in Lake Erie, the result of agricultural runoff, contaminated drinking water in Toledo, Ohio.
Just think of how your life would change if you had to walk two hours each day to obtain drinking water or wood for fuel.
A billion don't have clean drinking water.
The lesson for other developing countries is that spending on the poor for health, education, safe drinking water, electricity, and the like, is not simply pandering; it is a serious and productive investment.
We could win the war against hunger, end conflicts, stop communicable diseases, provide clean drinking water, improve education and halt climate change.
In comparison, the UN estimates that half that amount could buy clean drinking water, sanitation, basic health care, and education for every single person in the world.
But focusing on the wrong ones - like drinking a lot of water - diverts our attention from more important issues.
The good news is that the quantity of water that is needed for drinking, cooking, other household chores and sanitation is small.
The ambassadors found that providing clean drinking water and sanitation to the billion people lacking such amenities was crucial.
Like drinking a glass or two of wine, it helps digestion and lightens the mind.
We also have a good chance of meeting the target of reducing by half the proportion of people in developing countries without safe drinking water - but to achieve the same with sanitation is proving more difficult.
While the world watches, Burma's generals are consolidating their tyrannical rule as hundreds of thousands of the cyclone's survivors remain in desperate need of shelter, clean drinking water and medical care.
All those days spent in secret conclave in Basel, drinking through the BIS's legendary wine cellar, have apparently led to no consensus.

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