nondrinker
noun
a person who abstains from alcoholic beverages.
nondrinking
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a word derived from
nondrinker.
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
Lester Lee Bates, 48, is a loud-talking, nondrinking, nonsmoking insurance-company president from Columbia.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the first round of Wimbledon got under way this week, the austere ways of the nondrinking, nonsmoking, in-bed-by-11 Australians prompted one U.S. player to call them "too damned earnest."
From Time Magazine Archive
