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How to use beer in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Beer means an alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt; often with hops or some other substance (like gruit) to impart a bitter flavor. Example: “Beer is brewed all over the world.”

Examples of beer by meaning

nounAn alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt; often with hops or some other substance (like...

  • Beer is brewed all over the world.

nounA glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.

  • I bought a few beers from the shop for the party.
  • Can I buy you a beer?
  • I'd like two beers and a glass of white wine.

nounA variety of the above beverages.

  • Pilsner is one of the most commonly served beers in Europe.
  • I haven't tried this beer before.
  • I had two beers yesterday at the restaurant.

verbTo give beer to (someone).

  • “Beer me!” said Goody.2010, Steve Brezenhoff, The Absolute Value of -1, Carolrhoda Lab, page 121
  • I heard Patty Marsh yelling, ‘Beer him, Eleanor!’2013, Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World, Hatchette Books Ireland, page 124
  • “Beer me!” To his astonishment she obeyed his command, appearing a minute later with a glass of beer and a wry smile.2013, R. D. Power, Forbidden, page 39

verbTo drink beer.

  • In Japan, students on a Friday night announce “Let's beer!”2008, Charles Foran, Join the Revolution, Comrade: Journeys and Essays, page 83

nounOne who is or exists.

  • Because Albert was a beer.1990, Budge Wilson, “Be-ers and Doers”, in The leaving, and other stories

More sentences with beer

  • He never learned how to pour a glass of beer so it didn't have too much head.From the entry head
  • He was about to take a drink from his root beer.From the entry drink
  • Can I please get an Italian and a beer? Thank you!From the entry Italian
  • I can't believe you quaffed four pints of beer and could still drive!From the entry quaff
  • The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now it's all watery.From the entry cut
  • He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.From the entry drunk
  • This light beer still gets you drunk if you have enough of it.From the entry light
  • I'd like three beers and two wines, please. My friend will have the same.From the entry wine
  • Fetch me a cold beer if there's one in the fridge.From the entry if
  • The bartender's inexpert pour left me with a pint of beer that was half foam.From the entry pour
  • He's a very quiet man usually, but is very chatty after a few beers.From the entry quiet
  • You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you.From the entry gut
  • Can I please get a Cuban and a beer? Thank you!From the entry Cuban
  • The local pub was offering a chicken parma and a pot of beer for $8.From the entry parma
  • A pint of beer in the saloon bar costs a penny more than in the public bar.From the entry saloon
  • Among the arrests is a man charged with possession of stolen goods, to wit: 50 beer crates.From the entry to wit
  • We didn’t need IDs. We just liberated these beers from the back of the shop.From the entry liberate
  • Pop a tap in the barrel's bung-hole so you can pour us a round of beer, innkeeper!From the entry bung-hole
  • A scrum developed around the bar when free beer was announced.From the entry scrum
  • I don’t like beer much. Give me a fine wine anytime.From the entry anytime
  • I like gin and tonic as a mixed drink, but I really prefer beer.From the entry mixed drink
  • We very nearly did in an entire keg of beer that weekend.From the entry do in
  • I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals fa-laaaaming.From the entry flaming
  • Get some more beer out of the fridge before we run out.From the entry run out
  • They act turbo wasted when they have more than a few beers in them.From the entry turbo
  • We scavenged a couple of old beer cans for our art project.From the entry scavenge
  • Sorry, I haven't got beer. We don’t keep any alcohol in the house.From the entry have got
  • The income from standard widgets is small beer compared to the income from the gold-plated ones.From the entry small beer

Meaning of beer

  1. noun An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt; often with hops or some other substance (like gruit) to impart a bitter flavor.
  2. noun A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.
  3. noun A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid.

Full definition of beer

Questions about beer in a sentence

How do you use beer in a sentence?
Beer is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Beer is brewed all over the world.”
What is a short sentence with beer?
““Beer me!” said Goody.”
What does beer mean?
Beer means an alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt; often with hops or some other substance (like gruit) to impart a bitter flavor.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beer (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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