Definition of breathalyse in English:
breathalyse
(US breathalyze)
verbˈbrɛθəlʌɪzˈbrɛθəˌlaɪz
[with object](of the police) use a breathalyser to test how much alcohol (a driver) has consumed.
he was later breathalysed at Cirencester Police Station
Example sentencesExamples
- If police are able to breathalyse drivers for alcohol, there is no reason why they should not take mouth samples.
- Without breathalysing the cows individually, it seemed, there would be no way of knowing for sure.
- I've been stopped and breathalysed a few times but I've never been over the limit.
- Yet when he breathalysed me the result was negative my homeopathic booze had beaten the system.
- The introduction of testing for illegal drugs is being conducted in tandem with breathalysing for alcohol in the workplace.
- My wife had heard the other driver say that he had been at the Golf Club and asked the police to breathalyse him.
- We'll breathalyse them on the way out.
- Over the last two years, an average of 12,000 drivers were arrested and breathalysed.
- They were both breathalysed and then carted off to the nearest police station.
- If they'd breathalysed me at that moment I would have been way over the limit, but of course I had my feet firmly on the ground.
- He was breathalysed at the police station at about 12.02am.
- Perhaps it's ministers who need breathalysing.
- Ideally, a community nurse should visit daily to monitor progress and, if possible, breathalyse for alcohol.
- He breathalyses her which suggests she has twice the legal limit of alcohol in her bloodstream.
- Don't be tempted to have a quick one before you set off; all climbers are stringently breathalysed!
- O'Carroll pointed out that having a zero limit would mean breathalyzing everyone that got into a car.
Definition of breathalyze in US English:
breathalyze
verbˈbrɛθəˌlaɪzˈbreTHəˌlīz
[with object]usually be breathalyzed(of the police) use a breathalyzer.
he was later breathalyzed at Cirencester Police Station
Example sentencesExamples
- Perhaps it's ministers who need breathalysing.
- Don't be tempted to have a quick one before you set off; all climbers are stringently breathalysed!
- Over the last two years, an average of 12,000 drivers were arrested and breathalysed.
- Yet when he breathalysed me the result was negative my homeopathic booze had beaten the system.
- They were both breathalysed and then carted off to the nearest police station.
- We'll breathalyse them on the way out.
- He was breathalysed at the police station at about 12.02am.
- My wife had heard the other driver say that he had been at the Golf Club and asked the police to breathalyse him.
- Ideally, a community nurse should visit daily to monitor progress and, if possible, breathalyse for alcohol.
- If they'd breathalysed me at that moment I would have been way over the limit, but of course I had my feet firmly on the ground.
- Without breathalysing the cows individually, it seemed, there would be no way of knowing for sure.
- The introduction of testing for illegal drugs is being conducted in tandem with breathalysing for alcohol in the workplace.
- O'Carroll pointed out that having a zero limit would mean breathalyzing everyone that got into a car.
- If police are able to breathalyse drivers for alcohol, there is no reason why they should not take mouth samples.
- I've been stopped and breathalysed a few times but I've never been over the limit.
- He breathalyses her which suggests she has twice the legal limit of alcohol in her bloodstream.