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

For the first few years of its implementation, the NIL era has been mostly characterized by institutions and sponsors falling all over themselves to help create a new class of multi-millionaires – even before most of them are of legal drinking age. —Dallas Morning News, 8 Mar. 2026

Get rid of your ex's belongings and gifts This coping mechanism is one for people of legal drinking age. —Julia Gomez, USA Today, 7 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

The special districts aim to boost foot traffic and cut red tape by allowing people of drinking age to buy alcohol from participating businesses and carry their drinks around in non-glass containers. —Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 5 Nov. 2025

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