How to Use alcoholism in a Sentence
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The writer Joseph Roth died of alcoholism in Paris in May 1939.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2022
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Hints that these kinds of drugs could be used in the treatment of alcoholism go back even further.
—Grace Browne, WIRED, 2 Dec. 2023
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Over the past five years, my dad’s alcoholism has taken over.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
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She was taken in at the age of 10 when her father died from alcoholism.
—Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 9 May 2022
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Life in Boston, Fields said, was the same — in and out of shelters and battling alcoholism.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2019
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Her son, Kevin Hunter Jr., says in the film that Williams’ issues have been linked to her alcoholism by physicians.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
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Eddie was deep into the throes of alcoholism back then.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2022
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The two stayed married for 22 years, but divorced due to James's alcoholism.
—Emily Burack, Town & Country, 18 July 2022
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Drugs were everywhere, and there was a lot of alcoholism.
—Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
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Like the Bidens, the Sheenes struggled with alcoholism through the generations.
—Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
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Widdy said his trauma led to into alcoholism and run-ins with the law.
—Britt Clennett, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2022
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Pennell died in 2002, at the age of forty-nine, after a long struggle with alcoholism.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2020
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Other artists spoke to me of their battles with alcoholism and a son’s suicide.
—New York Times, 1 June 2022
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With parents who floated from job to job and in the haze of alcoholism, his life, and those of his seven siblings, was bleak.
—Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 19 Oct. 2020
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After a bout with alcoholism in his late 20s, Rob has been sober for nearly 30 years.
—Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 14 Mar. 2023
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Your wife’s alcoholism is a disease -- not a lack of willpower or a moral failing on her part.
—cleveland, 21 June 2021
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The two years away from his sport and the loss of an eye ended his Olympic dreams and sent him hurtling into depression and alcoholism.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2021
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Hunter Biden has a history of alcoholism and drug abuse.
—Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 29 Jan. 2020
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In the ’70s and ’80s, Mr. Imus led a rock-star life and battled alcoholism and cocaine addiction.
—Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2019
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The loss of her father to alcoholism and suicide, and her mother’s death soon after.
—Mary Ann Gwinn Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
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Yeah, well, in a family where alcoholism is the norm, normal isn’t good.
—Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
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Her mother has died, and Jane and her sister (also now struggling with alcoholism) have to get the house ready to sell.
—Randy Rosenthal, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
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Biden, who struggled with alcoholism and drugs, fathered Navy with Roberts in 2018.
—Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 12 June 2024
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That leads to alcoholism and, somehow, trying to stab him with her stiletto heel.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2024
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The only member of the family who talked about alcoholism was Biden.
—Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
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In the past, Perry has been open about alcoholism and addiction.
—Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 21 Feb. 2022
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On the show, Faris played Christy Plunkett, a single mom who struggles with alcoholism.
—Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 4 Sep. 2020
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But his struggle with alcoholism came to define his life.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
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That’s especially true of Rodgers, who could no longer stand working with him so closely while working around his alcoholism for the better part of 25 years.
—David Opie, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2025
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While Riseborough earned raves as a Texas woman who won the lottery years ago only to squander her winnings and struggle with alcoholism, barely anyone saw the film.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
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