How to Use drinking age in a Sentence

drinking age

noun
  • 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
  • Sober cruising is not just for pregnant women and those under the legal drinking age.
    Brian Cicioni, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2023
  • Single tickets for guests of legal drinking age are $100.
    Michael Alberty, oregonlive, 5 July 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
  • 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
  • The legal minimum drinking age in the Caribbean island nation is 18.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • One club owner’s theory: Young people who reached drinking age during the pandemic got used to showing vaccination cards on their phones and figure an image of an ID will work too.
    Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The popular hypothesis is that the youngest generation of legal drinking age consumers simply isn’t drinking as much alcohol as prior generations.
    Gary Stoller, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • 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

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