drinking age

noun

: the age at which a person can legally buy and drink alcohol

The drinking age in the U.S. is 21.

Examples of drinking age in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

When asked about Gen Z, Sterling is careful to specify consumers of legal drinking age. —Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 5 June 2026

Wristbands will need to be issued to people of legal drinking age and participating businesses will be required to verify that customers are 21 years old or older before selling them alcohol, per a new entertainment zone ordinance. —Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026

The limit in North Carolina is 0.08% and the legal drinking age is 21. —Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2026

Young people were driving the shift, with another poll finding that sixty per cent of Gen Zers of drinking age chose to drink very little or not at all. —Alexander Nazaryan, New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2026

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