How to Use teetotaler in a Sentence

teetotaler

noun

• Here are six things to know about him: ■ The 37-year-old Kennedy is a teetotaler.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• The biggest thing standing in their way may be that teetotaler in chief.
  — Tom Acitelli, The Denver Post, 2 June 2017
• A teetotaler with a figure, that figure, which would make any slovenly dope drop the drink and turn his will over to the Lord up on high.
  — Daniel Edward Rosen, Esquire, 24 Oct. 2013
• And what the film doesn’t spotlight is that Robert was hardly a teetotaler himself.
  — Vulture, 25 July 2023
• Close to 80 percent and that even includes some teetotalers.
  — Mark Will-Weber, Town & Country, 28 Oct. 2015
• 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
• Like his teetotaler father, Trump Jr. no longer drinks.
  — Tierney McAfee, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2017
• 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 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
• Cruelly, the teetotaler had cancer of the liver, which was diagnosed in the winter of 1976.
  — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 23 June 2018
• In fact, many attract teetotalers as well, said Ms. Turley.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2017
• The most exciting nugget to emerge in recent news reports is the revelation that Mr. Suga, a teetotaler with a sweet tooth, starts and ends each day with 100 situps.
  — Ben Dooley, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2020
• The biggest change: teetotalers aren’t the only ones ordering them.
  — Monica Khemsurov, New York Times, 28 July 2023
• For the stylish teetotaler: Three Spirit, a line of non-alcoholic spirits made with functional plants, has been known to save the day—and maybe the morning after, too.
  — Aleksandra Crapanzano, Bon Appétit, 22 Nov. 2021
• Somehow this seems akin to a bar offering deep discounts to teetotalers.
  — WSJ, 18 Mar. 2020
• Teetotalers will gladly take note of the pure-sugar sodas from Oak Cliff Beverage Works.
  — Anna Caplan, star-telegram, 16 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The former president has frequently spoken of his pain at the way his brother Fred died from alcoholism at the age of 42 and is a lifetime teetotaler.
  — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 2 Apr. 2021
• Or the fact that John D. Rockefeller Jr. was an absolute teetotaler.
  — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 16 July 2021
• For the moment, however, one thing is certain: the teetotaler president will be dined (if not wined) in lavish fashion.
  — James McAuley, Washington Post, 10 July 2017
• 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
• And while Donald Trump is a professed teetotaler, his daughter and son-in-law might appreciate the 1,200-bottle wine cellar.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 12 Dec. 2016
• Which may explain why the president, famously, is a teetotaler, as is his sister.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
• Many barmen moved across the Atlantic, but Henry Ramos, already practically a teetotaler himself, didn’t fight it and closed up shop for good.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2021
• Lucas adds that women should always designate one member of their group the teetotaler.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• At the start of the film, Kopfrkingl is a bourgeois functionary: a teetotaler, an aesthete, a family man, and a student of Buddhist philosophy.
  — Jeremy Lybarger, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2020
• Like his grandson, Friedrich was a teetotaler and avoided his military service.
  — Katrin Bennhold, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2018
• Kids and teetotalers can opt for mystic portal punch, which has lemon-lime and tangerine flavors with Powerade Mountain Berry Blast.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 June 2018

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