How to Use malt liquor in a Sentence

malt liquor

noun

• Nettle tea was ladled from an oil drum and 40s of malt liquor were passed around.
  — Wes Enzinna, Harper's magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
• Officers found an open can of cold malt liquor on the passenger floorboard.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland.com, 3 Aug. 2019
• During a search of the Chevy, police found an opened container of malt liquor.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 5 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Most existing studies have examined bans on the sale of malt liquor.
  — Eric Adler march 29, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2026
• Conant swills river water and lives on hot dogs, Tabasco sauce, and malt liquor.
  — Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Outside Online, 8 Apr. 2022
• No idea that malt liquor used to have an upscale association.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2010
• On a frigid evening in January, two homeless men sat on a bench downtown, swilling malt liquor.
  — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2025
• 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
• The brand boasts its real spirits instead of malt liquor as a key differentiator from other hard seltzers on the market.
  — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Major parts of Kansas City can say goodbye to the sale of mini liquor bottles and single-serve containers of beer and malt liquor.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2026
• Jim claims his favorite sections measure ice cream production, malt liquor consumption and trout propagation.
  — Linda Chong, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• Having had his own success with a malt liquor business, Vultaggio and his partners pivoted to selling iced tea in the same-sized 23-ounce cans as their malt liquor.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 27 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Canned cocktails, drinks that include spirits like vodka, tequila or gin rather than the malt liquor base of popular seltzers, have begun to take market share in the ready-to-drink alcoholic beverage category.
  — Ryan Baker, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Bans only is certain areas The amendment, proposed in February, does not aim to ban the sale of single-serve beers, malt liquor or minis (also known as nips, shooters, shots or airplane bottles) across the entire city.
  — Eric Adler march 29, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The ordinance, scheduled to be discussed Tuesday before the Kansas City Council’s Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee, would also ban the sale of single-serve containers of beer and malt liquor of 40 ounces or less.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026