How to Use alcoholism in a Sentence

alcoholism

noun

• The writer Joseph Roth died of alcoholism in Paris in May 1939.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2022
• Hints that these kinds of drugs could be used in the treatment of alcoholism go back even further.
  — Grace Browne, WIRED, 2 Dec. 2023
• Over the past five years, my dad’s alcoholism has taken over.
  — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
• She was taken in at the age of 10 when her father died from alcoholism.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 9 May 2022
• Life in Boston, Fields said, was the same — in and out of shelters and battling alcoholism.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Eddie was deep into the throes of alcoholism back then.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2022
• The two stayed married for 22 years, but divorced due to James's alcoholism.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 18 July 2022
• Drugs were everywhere, and there was a lot of alcoholism.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
• Like the Bidens, the Sheenes struggled with alcoholism through the generations.
  — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• Widdy said his trauma led to into alcoholism and run-ins with the law.
  — Britt Clennett, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2022
• Pennell died in 2002, at the age of forty-nine, after a long struggle with alcoholism.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2020
• Other artists spoke to me of their battles with alcoholism and a son’s suicide.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• Your wife’s alcoholism is a disease -- not a lack of willpower or a moral failing on her part.
  — cleveland, 21 June 2021
• 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
• Hunter Biden has a history of alcoholism and drug abuse.
  — Tim Pearce, Washington Examiner, 29 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Yeah, well, in a family where alcoholism is the norm, normal isn’t good.
  — Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Biden, who struggled with alcoholism and drugs, fathered Navy with Roberts in 2018.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 12 June 2024
• That leads to alcoholism and, somehow, trying to stab him with her stiletto heel.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2024
• The only member of the family who talked about alcoholism was Biden.
  — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• In the past, Perry has been open about alcoholism and addiction.
  — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 21 Feb. 2022
• On the show, Faris played Christy Plunkett, a single mom who struggles with alcoholism.
  — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 4 Sep. 2020
• But his struggle with alcoholism came to define his life.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
• As the film opens, a matter-of-fact, unemotional voice shares statistics about children living with poverty, parental abuse and alcoholism in the United States, as the numbers flash in simple white text on a black screen.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 Mar. 2025
• That includes a pair of surprisingly cathartic conversations between him and John Kreese (Martin Kove), the sensei whose verbal and even physical abuse kicked off his slide into self-loathing and eventually alcoholism after that loss in 1984.
  — Ben Rosenstock, TIME, 13 Feb. 2025