dry law
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Courting the female vote, the state’s Chief Minister Nitish Kumar made the dry law a bedrock of his re-election campaign and signed the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act in 2016.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2025
"This bureau which you supported," the Senator concluded, "really enforced the dry law then, in the absence of the legislation which the State Legislature refused to pass?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Speakeasies flourished, for Nevada has no dry law.
From Time Magazine Archive
County Attorney James McClain, 31, launched his campaign for governor and repeal of the state's dry law with a parade of farm trucks and equipment.
From Time Magazine Archive
It’s a matter, as I said before, of hard, dry law, and damage.
From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
