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
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Nettle tea was ladled from an oil drum and 40s of malt liquor were passed around.
—Wes Enzinna, Harper's magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
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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
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During a search of the Chevy, police found an opened container of malt liquor.
—John Benson, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2020
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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
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Conant swills river water and lives on hot dogs, Tabasco sauce, and malt liquor.
—Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2022
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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
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Officers found an open can of cold malt liquor on the passenger floorboard.
—Bruce Geiselman, cleveland.com, 3 Aug. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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Christopher Gandsy has a different outlook on malt liquor.
—Joshua M. Bernstein, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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