Eighteenth Amendment

American  

noun

1. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1918, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages for consumption: repealed in 1933.

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Example Sentences

The bells were actually tolling in recognition of Nebraska’s ratifying the Eighteenth Amendment.

From Literature

I suppose young adults who grew up from 1920-1933 had similar difficulty getting future generations to believe the Eighteenth Amendment existed, notwithstanding stories about Eliot Ness and “The Untouchables.”

From Washington Times

But in 1919, exactly half a century after the Party’s founding, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, banning “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.”

From The New Yorker

A young woman recited or declaimed the imperishable Eighteenth Amendment in an Evanston church.

From Project Gutenberg

The other authorized and requested the Governor to call on the national government, in behalf of the State of Maryland, to "have the so-called Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act declared null and void."

From Project Gutenberg