How to Use malt liquor in a Sentence

malt liquor

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  • The store won’t sell nips, quarter pints, or 40 oz. bottles of malt liquor.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Nettle tea was ladled from an oil drum and 40s of malt liquor were passed around.
    — Wes Enzinna, Harper's magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Martha tries on a grill, shotguns a beer and glugs out of a 40-ounce bottle of malt liquor this season.
    — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • During a search of the Chevy, police found an opened container of malt liquor.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2020
  • High school runs by in a haze of rum and malt liquor: a secret girlfriend, a few car crashes, a few arrests.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Conant swills river water and lives on hot dogs, Tabasco sauce, and malt liquor.
    — Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2022
  • This was a different era, when the best player in the world could spend the summer matched up against an 18-year-old, malt liquor plugged on the front of his jersey and a girlie mag on the back.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Officers found an open can of cold malt liquor on the passenger floorboard.
    — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland.com, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Bottles of malt liquor, pens and garbage cans all come to life, debating social issues.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Shaw painted images of Mary holding items like a 40-ounce bottle malt liquor, a suicide vest, and a rifle.
    — Leila Barghouty, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Everyone is surrounded by soft twinkle-lights, and no one appears to be hiding a forty of malt liquor out of frame.
    — Zoe Si, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Christopher Gandsy has a different outlook on malt liquor.
    — Joshua M. Bernstein, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Hanks, who has gone to rehab and who discussed his cocaine and crack abuse in 2015, parades around with a half-empty bottle of malt liquor and wraps himself in the Jamaican flag, then shows off a massive pile of weed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • In San Francisco corner stores, Knight is wooed by bug-eyed bottles of malt liquor claiming to be replacements for therapy.
    — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Icing involves hiding a bottle of Smirnoff Ice, a flavored malt liquor, and demanding that the person who discovers it, in this case the deputy director, guzzle it.
    — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Lifted Libations mixed drinks get their kick from organic vodka unlike Truly, White Claw and many other spiked sodas which use malt liquor.
    — Mike Dojc, Forbes, 28 May 2021
  • About 50 Norfolk Southern train cars carrying products ranging from wheat and malt liquor to hazardous materials derailed Friday night in a fiery crash near the Pennsylvania state line.
    — Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Watson was drinking from a can of Hurricane Category 5 malt liquor, according to an arrest report.
    — Linda Trischitta, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Olde English 800 malt liquor was another brand Blitz-Weinhard owned and promoted at the time, eventually becoming the company’s best seller.
    — oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Holed up in snowbound western Massachusetts living off thin dining hall coffee and forties of malt liquor, the innocent-yet-ironic taste of the fluffernutter resonated with our homesick hearts.
    — TheWeek, 2 May 2020
  • Of course, the company may be most famous for its original drink formula, whose potent one-two punch combination of caffeine and malt liquor was ultimately banned by the Food and Drug Administration.
    — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Black audiences who didn’t identify with that target demographic began to distance themselves from malt liquor, and gravitate toward premium spirits.
    — al, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The community demanded the officers be fired after an image posted on social media showed the tree decorated with racist items, including menthol cigarettes, a can of malt liquor and a cup from a fried chicken restaurant, CBS Minnesota reported.
    — Erin Donaghue, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2020

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