How to Use nondrinker in a Sentence

nondrinker

noun
  • There's plenty for nondrinkers, too.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2026
  • The event is 21 and up, and even nondrinkers need a ticket for entry.
    — Adele Chapin, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Creating space for nondrinkers who will pay the same amount for mocktails as cocktails is one of them.
    — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Many of us — maybe most of us — are both drinkers and nondrinkers, depending on the mood, the company, the day of the week, the month.
    — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Women who consume two to five drinks a day are 40 percent more likely to get breast cancer than nondrinkers.
    — Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 8 May 2017
  • This discourages nondrinkers and minors, who aren’t allowed inside, from taking up the game.
    — John Otis, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
  • Pagor's cocktail list, meanwhile, is focused and streamlined, with six cocktails plus two options for nondrinkers.
    — Joseph Hernandez, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2017
  • With an area stocked with low tables for children, this beer hall is particularly suited for drinkers and nondrinkers alike.
    — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2018
  • The team plotted the results on graphs to better see which bacteria stood out among the drinkers in comparison with nondrinkers.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 23 Apr. 2018
  • For the drinker-nondrinker, Dry January might feel like a nice reset or a worthwhile experiment.
    — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Several studies show that frequent drinkers don’t perform as well as nondrinkers on tests of memory, verbal learning and attention.
    — Jessica Lahey, Washington Post, 24 June 2019
  • Back in Munich, the beer story widens beyond the festival tents and zeroes in on a place where even nondrinkers consider their visit a pilgrimage.
    — David Dickstein, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
  • The mouths of people who routinely drank one or more alcoholic beverages each day contained an overabundance of bad bacteria and a smaller amount of good bacteria than those of nondrinkers, new research has found.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Second, nonalcoholic products have been successfully marketed not only to nondrinkers but to regular beer consumers.
    — Clark Da​nderson, The Conversation, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But many studies have found that coffee drinkers typically have lower risks of various diseases than nondrinkers do, explained Marilyn Cornelis, the lead researcher on the new work.
    — Amy Norton, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Those studies, however, focused on older people and didn’t differentiate between former drinkers and lifelong nondrinkers, thus potentially skewing the results, study authors said.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In fecal samples from patients with alcoholic liver disease, levels of it were 2700 times higher than in nondrinkers, although the mere quantity didn't correlate with a person's outcome.
    — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 13 Nov. 2019
  • With more than half of Gen Z claiming to be alcohol-free and 49 percent of Americans reportedly trying to drink less, wine regions are striving to craft experiences for nondrinkers.
    — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 July 2025

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