How to Use drunk in a Sentence

drunk

1 of 2 adjective
Definition of drunknext
Synonyms for drunknext
  • I was drunk and couldn't think straight.
  • We got drunk on wine.
  • She was so drunk that she could barely walk.
  • I don't like being around drunk people.
  • So, people just wake up and be drunk and go to the airport?
    — Zach Mentz, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Guests, drunk on liquor and a good time, buzz around her as a young girl plays at her feet.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
  • At trial, Lee claimed that Bland died from a fall while drunk.
    — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Best to take a deep breath, avoid getting drunk on the vision and get sober on the numbers.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 25 May 2023
  • There has never been any proof that Phelan was drunk on the job.
    — Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The woman who got so publicly drunk that night with Olea is now 30.
    — Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The drunk night chronicle is a glimpse of where their sound is going.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2023
  • After the first day of shooting, Diane Keaton and I got drunk.
    — Michael Appler, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The husband has also been visibly drunk in front of the house.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
  • There was a very, very drunk Irish man talking very close to my face …[Day] came and rescued me.
    — Stephanie Kaloi, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
  • They're meant to be drunk over the course of the entire day at long, rambling college parties.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 19 Dec. 2023
  • There were a few random shots, drunk people, over there.
    — Jim Weiker, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2023
  • After being tasked with an assignment from Dr. Gaul, the two got drunk one night and toyed around with the idea of the Hunger Games.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Anybody could be in our space at any time, like drunk men in the middle of the night coming to use your bathroom.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
  • Sue, now 100% drunk, asks if I was named after Mickey Mouse.
    — Hazlitt, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In one scene, Wei runs over a poor farmer while driving drunk; in the end, the farmer is forced to pay Wei for damaging his car.
    — Han Zhang, New York Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • What better place to do it than here, surrounded by dozens of hot drunk dudes?
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Don’t flash wads of cash or jewelry, stay away from drugs and drug dealers and don’t get drunk.
    — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2023
  • However, the scene in which Kristen Wiig gets drunk on a flight to Las Vegas may be one of the most quotable of all time.
    — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2023
  • That one happened during a drunk, high night alone one Tuesday, sketched out in front of a mirror.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Serotonin coursed through me, sparked by the delight at arriving in a new place, drunk on sun and sand and beauty.
    — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The original plan of getting drunk and waiting it out was not going to work.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Half the crowd is drunk, but a lot of people are in genuinely emotional places.
    — Grant Sharples, SPIN, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Communities throughout Asia and the Middle East have long drunk teas and soups in the summer.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Harry shows up drunk and insistent, and Adam sends him away.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2024
  • And no employer would allow people to go to work drunk.
    — Adam Morganstern, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
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drunk

2 of 2 noun
  • For the one drunk on love: Valentine's Day Card Ah, love.
    — Tessa Bahoosh, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2021
  • By her tenth trip to the kitchen, Blair was under-the-table drunk.
    — Wendy Kaur, ELLE, 18 May 2022
  • The man’s brother stepped out of the house and scolded the man for driving drunk.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 17 June 2021
  • But every drunk driving case presents a unique set of facts.
    — Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Yet on his Bitcoin joyride, the merry prankster’s got no more control than a drunk at the wheel.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 12 May 2022
  • That’s roughly the same number that die in drunk-driving deaths in the United States each year.
    — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The drunk was our version of a Shakespearian clown—blunt and wise.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The real goal was getting drunks off the street, remember?
    — Daniel Burke, CNN, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The girl said that Anderson-Agimuk had gotten her and the 14-year-old drunk and high on weed.
    — Author: Greg Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Rhys played a Mason who was rumpled, broke, divorced and a gloomy drunk.
    — Jeanne Jakle, ExpressNews.com, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Of course prior to the show the schedule leaked like an old drunk with a bladder condition.
    — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2021
  • Your guy, the Marine — he’s just a drunk and a troublemaker.
    — Raga Justin, Dallas News, 14 June 2021
  • As the woman spoke to a dispatcher, she and the boyfriend could be heard calling each other drunk.
    — cleveland, 4 May 2022
  • In the video recorded that night, Michele McLeod described her husband as an angry drunk.
    — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The woman released the duck, which waddled away as through drunk, and grabbed another.
    — Mathias Énard, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • That is the same level of charge, for example, as a first offense for driving drunk.
    — Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2020
  • At 83 years old and on the run after an out-of-state drunk-driving fine, Dean sees that his goal is almost beyond his reach.
    — Sarah Jones, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Wayne plays the tough Sheriff John T. Chance, who enlists the help of an old timer, a drunk and a young gunfighter to hold in jail the brother of the big baddie.
    — Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 26 May 2021
  • Also, to stay half-drunk for 16 hours a day is not recommendable.
    — James Hibberd, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The Kims’ tiny dining room window looks into a street that doubles as a urinal for drunks.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Today, most young people wouldn't even think about getting behind the wheel drunk.
    — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 25 Jan. 2022
  • West is cut from the finest of rakish Duke cloths, a dissolute drunk, gambler, and brawler, until the love of a good woman brings him to his knees.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2022
  • MacFarlane wasn’t thinking of Grimes in the role of Matty, an angry and pretty racist drunk.
    — Scott Grimes, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024
  • He had been required to attend the meeting because of a drunk-driving arrest many years ago.
    — Paul Pringlestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The Big Knife tells the story of a famous actor (Jack Palance) who kills a kid in a drunk-driving accident and then pays off his friend to take the fall for him.
    — Tyler Sage, Vulture, 15 June 2022
  • The daughter secretly gets involved with a young man, a drunk and a dreamer, who promises to take her with him to the United States.
    — Julia Lieblich, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Just three weeks ago Sanchez was sprung from prison on parole after serving two years of a six-year sentence in the drunk driving case.
    — Fox News, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Frank said his only hope from the tragedy was that others who learned about it would be dissuaded from driving drunk.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2019
  • In hard corners the Mazda lists like a drunk with an elbow on the bar and leans on its rear tires in an antsy two-step, threatening to snap sideways.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 21 July 2022
  • Consuming too much tea can make one relax and feel light-headed: tea drunk.
    — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022

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