Example Sentences

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“It’s a very long evening and not exactly my idea of a good night out,” Mr. Falk quoted him as saying — “sat there for five hours in a nonsmoking, nondrinking environment.”

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2019

“Our intention is to be at all the major events in the industry,” said Mirmelstein, and he is shaping up plans to have a nondrinking presence at CES, South by Southwest, and Cannes in France.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2018

The water is piped to the garden and sometimes into the home for nondrinking uses, like flushing toilets.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2012

The nonsmoking, nondrinking, nonswearing Speakes fitted no previous pattern.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nominee Robinson, himself a nondrinking Dry, undertook in a speech at Dallas to silence Whisper No. 2 about Nominee Smith.

From Time Magazine Archive