How to Use teetotaler in a Sentence

teetotaler

noun
  • The biggest thing standing in their way may be that teetotaler in chief.
    — Tom Acitelli, The Denver Post, 2 June 2017
  • But even teetotalers will find plenty of things to do in Napa.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2024
  • And what the film doesn’t spotlight is that Robert was hardly a teetotaler himself.
    — Vulture, 25 July 2023
  • Somehow this seems akin to a bar offering deep discounts to teetotalers.
    — WSJ, 18 Mar. 2020
  • Nunn scores on the physical comedy scale as a teetotaler who gets blotto drunk as the evening wears on.
    — Tom Titus, Daily Pilot, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Lukashenko, a professed teetotaler, raised a toast of vodka and urged his American guest to drink.
    — Simon Shuster, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
  • There are more than a dozen parent and teacher volunteers, all of whom are teetotalers who would get drunk on a single sip of hard cider.
    — Moses Milazzo, WIRED, 9 Nov. 2009
  • Americans are drinking less than ever—and a growing share are teetotalers.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Osmond, a teetotaler who has never done drugs, has been open about her son’s previous struggles with substance abuse.
    — Aili Nahas, PEOPLE.com, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Always prepared, Schrader brought his own bottle of wine and corkscrew to a table of teetotalers.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 9 May 2024
  • Plus, there are musical interludes that even a teetotaler can enjoy.
    — Noah Jacobs, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Lucas adds that women should always designate one member of their group the teetotaler.
    — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Which may explain why the president, famously, is a teetotaler, as is his sister.
    — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
  • After two books with hard-drinking, hell-raising women, are you tempted at all to write about, say, a mild-mannered teetotaler?
    — Dallas News, 11 May 2022
  • The president is a teetotaler, but the first lady — who enjoys a glass of wine with dinner — made the selections.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • There was music and a dry reception in the church basement, my grandfather being a teetotaler.
    — Minrose Gwin, New York Times, 18 May 2024
  • The president-elect is a teetotaler, and has advised his children throughout their lives to avoid alcohol.
    — Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Like his grandson, Friedrich was a teetotaler and avoided his military service.
    — Katrin Bennhold, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2018
  • Wine dealing was unusual for Quakers, who tended to be teetotalers, but the pursuit of science was not.
    — John J. Ross, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Coffee drinkers and teetotalers alike have a place to go during late-night hours in Skokie– a shop offering coffee and drinks native to Yemen.
    — Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
  • For a teetotaler like me, the bartender created a mean zero-proof cocktail with bitter notes, similar to a Negroni.
    — John Wogan, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Gone are the days when teetotalers were limited to a syrupy Shirley Temple or a soda loaded with high-fructose corn syrup or aspartame.
    — Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 31 Dec. 2025
  • In recent years, bars across the city have started offering mocktails and non-alcoholic beer and wine so teetotalers aren't limited to soda water and lime.
    — Data Reporter, Austin American Statesman, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Teetotalers will gladly take note of the pure-sugar sodas from Oak Cliff Beverage Works.
    — Anna Caplan, star-telegram, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Here, Kirsten, who starts off as a teetotaler before descending into a boozy abyss, requires O’Hara to hit notes of deep despair.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
  • No, the truth is far simpler and much sadder than excessive alcohol or a teetotaler-like resistance to mixing even a dash of humanity with their sports.
    — Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Cruelly, the teetotaler had cancer of the liver, which was diagnosed in the winter of 1976.
    — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 23 June 2018
  • Socially conservative teetotalers will be hard to find at Bluegrass in the Bottoms.
    — Bill Brownlee, kansascity.com, 16 May 2017
  • Tip Top’s drinks are simple and generous—a beer-and-shot special is five dollars—and a good deal for anyone who’s not a lurid teetotaler with billions of dollars of shady debt.
    — Colin Stokes, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
  • For her part, Robinson has gone without a drink for more than two years and experienced her best training and fastest marathon after three months as a teetotaler (coincidence or not).
    — Erin Strout, Women's Health, 22 Mar. 2023

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