On the reading circuit audience members drink cocktails and socialize, while readers work to entertain them.

I looked around the tables and saw other girls drinking cocktails, so I took one.

Hotels are rolling out activities that owners can do with their pets, like, well, drinking cocktails.

"They are drinking more martinis and fancy cocktails than before, even late at night, at 1 or 2 in the morning."

Drink cocktails over communal glass tables screening international news.

People drop in, drink cocktails at the long 34-seat bar while waiting for their friends to arrive.

The hypocrisy of politicians who would support resolutions for stricter enforcement and half an hour later be drinking cocktails disturbed her.

Drinking extravagant cocktails through the working day is another, starting at around 11am.

The whole thing was absurd; I did not drink cocktails with people who went around strangling people.

Among these are the varieties of sherry and port glasses that are difficult to track down in a society given to drinking cocktails.