How to Use drinking age in a Sentence

drinking age

noun
  • Sober cruising is not just for pregnant women and those under the legal drinking age.
    — Brian Cicioni, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2023
  • Please do not share or forward this content with anyone under the legal drinking age.
    — Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Please do not share or forward this content with anyone under the legal drinking age.
    — Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Remarkably, this is the same number of days between reaching legal drinking age and crossing into middle age.
    — Joseph Coughlin, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Neon blue, pink and yellow wristbands normally handed out to tubers of legal drinking age peaked out slightly from behind dead leaves and dirt.
    — Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 19 Feb. 2025
  • That case reached the court after South Dakota refused to change its legal drinking age from 19 to 21.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
  • But paradoxically, though the drinking age has risen, the relative age of those in the clubs has dropped — everyone seems to be 17.
    — Amy Virshup, Vulture, 14 May 2025
  • The answer was that since Sarah is 22 years old and the drinking age is 21, Sarah can legally drink alcohol.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Young people were driving the shift, with another poll finding that sixty per cent of Gen Zers of drinking age chose to drink very little or not at all.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Nonalcoholic options will also be available, though only people of legal drinking age will be allowed inside the pop-up.
    — Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Adults of legal drinking age can book the Holiday Express Spiked, where hot chocolate comes with an alcoholic kick.
    — Talia Avakian, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
  • People buying beer and cocktails will need to get a drinking age verified wristband at the ID checks and wear it throughout the festival.
    — Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2024
  • Larsen and Serrano, who were not of legal drinking age, also drank alcohol before the skit while in the presence of Cowling.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • According to Trip Savvy, the legal drinking age in Mexico is 18.
    — Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The legal minimum drinking age in the Caribbean island nation is 18.
    — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • An underage person who is accompanied by a parent, guardian or spouse of a legal drinking age may possess, consume, purchase or procure alcohol beverages.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2023
  • The policy will require any event serving alcohol on county grounds to provide an identifier for individuals of legal drinking age.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
  • The special districts aim to boost foot traffic and cut red tape by allowing people of drinking age to buy alcohol from participating businesses and carry their drinks around in non-glass containers.
    — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Proper hotel’s rooftop was transformed into a bubblegum confection of pink suede lounge areas, where champagne (for those of drinking age, of course) and Asian fusion hors d’oeuvre were circulated.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Additionally, the whisky brand will host the Crown Royal Station tailgate experience for guests of legal drinking age.
    — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The makeover was the first domino in a pop culture-disrupting series of events and a full metamorphosis for Cyrus, who still wouldn’t reach legal drinking age until November 2013.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Congress, wanting all states to have a standardized legal drinking age of 21, threatened to withdraw 5 percent of South Dakota’s federal highway funding.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The majority decided the potential loss of highway funds was not unduly coercive, but O’Connor felt the federal government was infringing upon the state’s right to set its own drinking age.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The legal smoking and drinking age in Japan is 20 and the JGA’s code of conduct prohibits gymnasts from doing either during team activities, regardless of age.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 22 July 2024
  • With Gen Zers reaching legal drinking age and entering nightlife spaces for the first time, event organizers and the nonalcoholic beverage industry are adjusting to accommodate those habits.
    — Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Nationally, this group — essentially anyone of drinking age who was born after 1980 — has about a 16 percent overall consumption share of fine wine in the United States now.
    — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Aug. 2016
  • With the kids becoming adults (and the local drinking age being 18), there's also the option to take a day for wine tasting at some of the island country's top vineyards in the Central Otago region about 45 minutes away by car.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2023
  • To commemorate the medical drama officially reaching drinking age, the 21st season cast (led by Camilla Luddington) assembled for a side-splitting, shot-for-shot recreation of the Vanderpump Rules intro, decked out in full scrubs.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2024

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