(v. t.) Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.
(v. t.) Specifically, a name applied to various kinds of drink.
(v. t.) A treat, or drink money.
Example Sentences:
(1) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(2) Standards may be developed for the use of alcoholic beverages by healthy persons, based on these considerations.
(3) Similarly, ingestion of the unsweetened beverage had no significant effect on plasma phenylalanine concentration.
(4) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
(5) The results of this study indicate that the degree of impairment after alcohol ingestion in a socially relevant manner is not dependent on the type of beverage consumed, but only on the resulting blood alcohol concentration.
(6) This response may have been influenced by the consumption of beverages containing osmotically active solutes such as sodium and glucose.
(7) At gestational weeks 16 and 21 (second trimester) and 30 and 35 (third trimester) the women were interviewed at home; they provided oral responses concerning their food and beverage consumption during the previous 24 hours.
(8) The Office for National Statistics reported a drop in output across the manufacturing sector, from pharmaceutical firm to makers of computers, electronic & optical products; and food products, beverages & tobacco goods.
(9) More than 30 state and city legislatures, from Hawaii to New York, have discussed or proposed curbs on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) ranging from bans in schools to cuts in portion sizes and a sales tax.
(10) Also little amount of n-propanol were detected in blood, which could not be reduced to the alcoholic beverages.
(11) Supplementation of the soya-bean beverage either with phosphorus and Ca or with P, Ca and methionine, to concentrations identical to those in milk, restored growth and bone mineralization.
(12) A total of 192 women with a clinical and thermographic diagnosis of fibrocystic breast disease were randomly assigned to four groups on the basis of two-by-two factorial design: (1) abstention from MTX-containing beverages, (2) abstention from alcohol, (3) abstention from MTX and alcohol, and (4) no dietary advice.
(13) The labeling of alcoholic beverages as 'vitamin enriched' could result in changes in the community's beliefs about alcohol and in increased alcohol consumption.
(14) They wanted food, beverages and personal products to be sharia-compliant, but showed more flexibility in products and services such as finance, insurance and travel.
(15) The risk of exceeding the Acceptable Daily Intake concerns only regular consumers (40-75 years old) of alcoholic beverages, particularly wine, the main vector.
(16) In the other, each serving of beverage provided 600 mg APM, a dose equivalent to the amount provided by 36 oz of APM-sweetened diet beverage.
(17) Confirming the presence of biologically active phytoestrogens in beer and their possible presence in other beverages, suggests that there may be clinically significant effects related to sustained exposure to phytoestrogens contained in alcoholic beverages.
(18) Approximately half of all respondents surveyed in Ontario are satisfied with current pricing of alcoholic beverages, and approximately two-thirds of all drinkers surveyed would pay more if higher prices would help reduce the prevalence of alcoholism.
(19) This study shows that restricting consumption of confectionery and beverages may be effective in preventing dental caries; however, encouragement of toothbrushing may not be effective in limiting dental caries progression.
(20) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
Sake
Definition:
(n.) Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive; reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly in such phrases as, for the sake of, for his sake, for man's sake, for mercy's sake, and the like; as, to commit crime for the sake of gain; to go abroad for the sake of one's health.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is no doubt a captain’s pick by Malcolm Turnbull and we hope for the sake of the relationship that it has been a good pick.” The planned appointment of Hockey to the Washington role has been one of the worst-kept secrets in Australian politics .
(2) "With hindsight," he writes, "it was a trumped-up excuse for radical activism for its own sake."
(3) This creativity frequently emerges from an aesthetic, poetic sense of freedom derived from work, an uninhibited playful activity of exploring a medium for its own sake.
(4) As she states in her editor’s forward to the first issue, Toor decided to publish a bilingual journal because she intended the magazine to be read by “high school and University students of Spanish … as well as to those who are interested in folklore and the Indian for their own sakes.” She adds: “Moreover, much beauty is lost in translating.” Toor presents herself as a competent cultural translator, should there be any doubt on the part of her readership.
(5) An immensely cerebral man, who trained himself to need only six hours of sleep - believing that a woman should have seven and only a fool eight - Mishcon was not a man given to small talk, nor one who would tolerate prattle for the sake of it.
(6) He didn't go to university, but says he discovered the joy of learning for learning's sake when he was tutored on the Harry Potter sets.
(7) I adored Chez Elles in Brick Lane's Banglatown; and Otto's , on Gray's Inn Road, looks set to be the capital's next insider secret, with a menu that doesn't appear to have met the 21st century: it does canard à la presse, for goodness sake.
(8) Louisa Bojesen (@louisabojesen) Are European govts unable to put aside their national interests for the sake of commercial business?
(9) "He must go for the sake of Libya," is a view expressed in whispers.
(10) Symptomatic treatment is essential, both of the sake of patients and those who attend them.
(11) But there would be a straightforward way to end this suffering for the sake of a few pounds a week: reform council tax.
(12) In most cases, the operation is performed for combined indications and, quite frequently, for the sake of the fetus.
(13) It is also important for the sake of the people you work with to treat them with respect and bring an element of humour and consideration into your work.
(14) But as Conservatives we don't believe in opposition for opposition's sake.
(15) The distillery sold more than one million cases of Glenfiddich, but Trump continued: "Glenfiddich should be ashamed of themselves for granting this award to Forbes, just for the sake of publicity.
(16) But because it included such spectacular but uncommon offences as homicide, rape and knife crime, some statistic could always be made to "soar" for the sake of a headline.
(17) Change is in the wind, and our tort system will be blown away on the winds of change for change's sake unless we participate in correcting deficiencies in the tort system and civil jury trial process."
(18) On an individual level, the two-thirds of people who are overweight need to be encouraged by GPs to try to lose weight for the sake of their health, Jebb said.
(19) The internal fistula need not be a seriuos complication of Crohn's disease and should not serve as an indication for surgical correction for its own sake.
(20) It must be restored for the sake of all, but most especially for the sake of those living in the affected communities,” Trump said.