How to Use booze in a Sentence

booze

1 of 2 verb
  • He was out boozing with his friends.
  • Who’s ready to brunch and booze on the Saturday morning tour?
    Birmingham Magazine, al, 3 Oct. 2019
  • His old man boozed and ran a junkyard, and his old lady went to church.
    James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
  • His night was over, and some of his friends were waiting to party with him and booze away his loss.
    Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • And boozing is not simply boozing with adults, and also with kids.
    Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Homeless people sometimes broke in to sleep and booze it up alongside piles of archived legal files.
    Sarah Hurtes, New York Times, 9 June 2023
  • The naked as a jaybird-to-jailbird guy allegedly 'fessed up to having been boozing it up.
    Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 July 2017
  • And the veteran scene stealer Jackie Hoffman, as a boozing Mrs. Teavee, sneaks in some zingers.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Besides possessing both the ability to cool you off and booze you up, Jeni's Frosé Sorbet has something else going for it.
    Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Moss is also really good, boozing away her troubles, dressed in black.
    Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 31 May 2018
  • Though the market would have closed for the day by Saturday evening, the area would have remained abuzz, with everyone from boozing twenty-somethings to families out for a meal.
    Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 June 2017
  • But there's nothing wrong with canceling everything and just deciding to start boozing at noon.
    Aaron Goldfarb, Esquire, 15 May 2015
  • Nome’s boozing history was born with the town after gold was discovered in 1898, bringing scores of hard-drinking fortune seekers.
    Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2017
  • The screenings are accompanied by food, booze, and great conversation.
    Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Ballplayers, Bouton revealed, could be boozing, womanizing, pill-popping, ball-scuffing rascals — overgrown teenagers, that is.
    Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 11 July 2019
  • Analysts from Morgan Stanley predict that self-driving cars will increase passenger boozing by an average of at least one more drink per week, what with all the extra hours before and during traveling that can be used for imbibing.
    Sarah Rense, Esquire, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Later, she’s morphed into a slightly more mature corporate employee, forgoing meat and booze for meditation.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
  • He was out boozing with his friends.
  • Who’s ready to brunch and booze on the Saturday morning tour?
    Birmingham Magazine, al, 3 Oct. 2019
  • His old man boozed and ran a junkyard, and his old lady went to church.
    James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
  • His night was over, and some of his friends were waiting to party with him and booze away his loss.
    Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • And boozing is not simply boozing with adults, and also with kids.
    Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Homeless people sometimes broke in to sleep and booze it up alongside piles of archived legal files.
    Sarah Hurtes, New York Times, 9 June 2023
  • The naked as a jaybird-to-jailbird guy allegedly 'fessed up to having been boozing it up.
    Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 July 2017
  • And the veteran scene stealer Jackie Hoffman, as a boozing Mrs. Teavee, sneaks in some zingers.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Besides possessing both the ability to cool you off and booze you up, Jeni's Frosé Sorbet has something else going for it.
    Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Moss is also really good, boozing away her troubles, dressed in black.
    Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 31 May 2018
  • Though the market would have closed for the day by Saturday evening, the area would have remained abuzz, with everyone from boozing twenty-somethings to families out for a meal.
    Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 June 2017
  • But there's nothing wrong with canceling everything and just deciding to start boozing at noon.
    Aaron Goldfarb, Esquire, 15 May 2015
  • Nome’s boozing history was born with the town after gold was discovered in 1898, bringing scores of hard-drinking fortune seekers.
    Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2017
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booze

2 of 2 noun
  • We bought some chips and booze for the party.
  • With the booze flowing, the Globes are always one of the messier events.
    Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The end of Drizly doesn’t mean the end of booze to your door.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2024
  • This rum cake gives a jolt of fresh fruit flavor with a touch of booze.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2023
  • But just because booze was on the table didn’t mean the work was over.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Once the love dried up, there was not much comfort for him but that booze.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2023
  • How many more drinks are left that haven’t already hopped on the spiked booze train?
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Ice cream, food and booze trucks have been all the rage in a post-pandemic world.
    Megha McSwain, Chron, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The rebel reporter who was obsessed with booze, drugs and guns?
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • There was a lot of booze, a lot of drugs, jail, guns, and other troubles.
    Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Many of the bullfighters live in a haze of booze, starting in the morning.
    Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
  • It’s about booze and falling out of love and bad romance.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • All the bittersweet flavor of the original, none of the booze.
    Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Vicki bootlegged booze to pay for the lease in 1980 and now owns and still oversees the theater.
    Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 4 Feb. 2023
  • And for the extras: Place raspberries in a jar and cover with your booze of choice.
    Kelsey Youngman, Bon Appétit, 17 July 2023
  • Arby's isn't the only fast-food brand dabbling in booze.
    Amanda Pérez Pintado, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022
  • That’s when the officer smelled booze and noticed the guy appeared drunk.
    John Benson, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Strain and store berries in the fridge, and reserve booze at room temperature.
    Kelsey Youngman, Bon Appétit, 17 July 2023
  • The real force behind the celebrity booze boom isn’t (just) money.
    Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Austin is often ranked as one of the safest big cities in the U.S. Note, though, that the ubiquity of booze here can be a blessing or a curse.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2023
  • Keith Floyd, where he just gets blasted on booze the whole time.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The bad news keeps piling up for the makers of everything from soft drinks to chocolate and booze.
    Lisa Pham and Dasha Afanasieva Bloomberg News (wpns), Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The drugs, the booze, the epic blowups with management over his gritty articles.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The vodka and gin are now available in the US for the first time, and the process behind making the booze is quite interesting.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2022
  • These grain mixtures tend to be more resilient to pests and drought, and to lend more complex flavors to breads, beer, and booze.
    Gemma Tarlach, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The kits have everything but the booze to make a delicious drink, and are great to take on a plane for a much better flight.
    Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 1 June 2023
  • Here’s what to know about drinking different kinds of booze.
    Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 12 Dec. 2022
  • There are even a number of bars opening up that don’t stock a single bottle of booze.
    Danny Trejo, Sunset Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
  • This decadent chocolate dessert has Baileys in the cupcake and the frosting (so, double the booze).
    Rachel Baron, Good Housekeeping, 9 Jan. 2023
  • And thankfully, nobody raises the cost of booze for Valentine’s Day — at least not yet.
    Jeff Burkhart, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024

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