How to Use booze in a Sentence

booze

1 of 2 verb
  • He was out boozing with his friends.
  • Not everyone wants to booze with their brunch.
    — Ashlyn Ware, Midwest Living, 20 June 2026
  • His old man boozed and ran a junkyard, and his old lady went to church.
    — James Ellroy, Vanities, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Pot, drugs, and booze solve nothing and make life more of a dumpster fire!
    — Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Who’s ready to brunch and booze on the Saturday morning tour?
    — Birmingham Magazine, al, 3 Oct. 2019
  • And boozing is not simply boozing with adults, and also with kids.
    — Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Aggie is boozed enough to think this is funny rather than disturbing.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Moss is also really good, boozing away her troubles, dressed in black.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 31 May 2018
  • Plus, a number of these recipes can be made sans booze (like the vodka cherry limeade) to satisfy a crew of all ages.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Of course, this soda could be boozed up with a splash of Malibu coconut rum (or any rum, really).
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 12 May 2025
  • In the midst of life's trials and tribulations, catharsis is getting bruised and boozed up in some of the best music venues in town.
    — Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Nov. 2024
  • But booze—and sugar, which is abundant in mixed drinks—can leave you parched, and dehydration is a common migraine trigger.
    — Cheyenne Buckingham, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Kara crashes in, all boozed up, having returned to a planet where their super-metabolism doesn’t work.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 20 May 2026
  • But there's nothing wrong with canceling everything and just deciding to start boozing at noon.
    — Aaron Goldfarb, Esquire, 15 May 2015
  • The screenings are accompanied by food, booze, and great conversation.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Weed’s true breakthrough won’t come from smoking, vaping, or even eating, but from beverages analogous to booze.
    — Kate Bernot, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
  • After turning to booze, running out of money, and once again losing his now-late grandma's house, Happy is a shell of his former self.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 25 July 2025
  • Ferrara makes no bones about the catastrophic consequences of so much boozing and chasing the dragon on his personal life and finances.
    — Nick Pinkerton, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Drinks include its Winter Wonderland peppermint shake (booze or no booze) topped with a Christmas tree cookie and other sweet treats.
    — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 28 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Thanks to its poor ventilation, smoke and the steam from several thousand adolescent bodies with hormones in full bloom could choke a person whose senses aren’t dulled by drugs or booze by mid-concert.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
  • For a dessert and booze in one, try the Cranachan cocktail, with Talisker 10 Year Old, raspberries and cheesecake mix, topped with a biscuit crumble.
    — Jenn Rice, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Ballplayers, Bouton revealed, could be boozing, womanizing, pill-popping, ball-scuffing rascals — overgrown teenagers, that is.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 11 July 2019
  • Later, she’s morphed into a slightly more mature corporate employee, forgoing meat and booze for meditation.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Maymont's Merry Market brings together more than 70 local makers for a day of shopping, plus live music, food and booze trucks and a holiday train.
    — Karri Peifer, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
  • But if these trends persist, alcohol brands won’t just be worrying about Gen-Zers not drinking anymore—they’ll have an entire population with a new relationship to booze.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2025

booze

2 of 2 noun
  • We bought some chips and booze for the party.
  • There was no booze and no drugs.
    — River Selby august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Dope and booze wise, there's no box left to uncheck.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Whom among us hasn’t grabbed some booze in times of stress?
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
  • You into booze or drugs these days?
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The bagpipes, the booze, the kilts!
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2026
  • Work is done for the day, and the booze is flowing.
    — Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Let’s talk about booze instead.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 10 June 2026
  • This rum cake gives a jolt of fresh fruit flavor with a touch of booze.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 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
  • His uncle seems too far gone in booze to take on an oshkaabewis.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The rebel reporter who was obsessed with booze, drugs and guns?
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Granddad would be slinging booze in here.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 12 Nov. 2025
  • But just because booze was on the table didn’t mean the work was over.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2023
  • There was a lot of booze, a lot of drugs, jail, guns, and other troubles.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Ice cream, food and booze trucks have been all the rage in a post-pandemic world.
    — Megha McSwain, Chron, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The end of Drizly doesn’t mean the end of booze to your door.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Keith Floyd, where he just gets blasted on booze the whole time.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • With the booze flowing, the Globes are always one of the messier events.
    — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Pledges of a united front fade as the booze flows and the barbs get sharper and sharper.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 June 2026
  • Experts also point to fatty, salty food and booze.
    — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
  • And don't even think about buying booze without a boss' approval.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 4 Feb. 2026
  • But there was no bar—and even if somebody opened one, the booze would be too expensive.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • No wonder Don Draper drank booze all the time.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 26 June 2026
  • Clementine’s is also known for its naughty (boozy) and nice (booze-free) flavors.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Make sure to let your panna cotta base cool fully before adding the booze.
    — Jesse Szewczyk, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Many of the bullfighters live in a haze of booze, starting in the morning.
    — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Alves said fainting can stem from a fear of flying, too much booze or exhaustion.
    — Andrea Sachs, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
  • 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

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