How to Use drunk in a Sentence

drunk

1 of 2 adjective
  • 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
  • The country singer has previously faced controversy after he was captured on video saying the N-word while drunk on a night out with friends in 2021.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Wine is an alcoholic beverage that can be healthy when drunk in moderation—variations of red such as pinot noir are among the healthiest wines.
    Cynthia Sass, Mph, Health, 8 Apr. 2024
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drunk

2 of 2 noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the video recorded that night, Michele McLeod described her husband as an angry drunk.
    Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Papadaches, who lived in the same building as Kelly, had just been released from reform school, where he had been sent after rolling a drunk.
    Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2020
  • The actors recognize that handling a room of drunks is performance.
    Amy Nicholson, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Brooks was suspected of drunk-driving and was found asleep in his car outside of a Wendy's restaurant blocking traffic.
    Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 14 June 2020
  • Demonstrators, some of whom appeared drunk, put up road blocks, burned tires and clashed with riot police who moved to clear access.
    Fox News, 21 Feb. 2020
  • Another had been arrested in Queens on a drunk-driving charge.
    New York Times, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Our Christmas tree may slump to one side or the other, like a drunk at a holiday party or an old person tired of standing for weeks on one limb.
    Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 28 Dec. 2021
  • This has less to do with the lack of parking and more to do with the fact that driving while high is as stupid, dangerous and irresponsible as driving drunk.
    Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
  • What could be better for an aspiring writer — or a budding drunk?
    New York Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Every year, people break their noses or even die because aggressive drunks use steins as weapons.
    Anna Clauss, The Know, 23 Sep. 2019
  • In what could be the most memorable of them all, the old man bravely confronts a racist drunk who harasses a niqab-wearing Muslim woman.
    Tomris Laffly, Variety, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The defense closings tried to paint Jabbari as an unhinged drunk and insisted Majors was the victim.
    Vulture, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Harry Myers, as the suicidal drunk, is highly amusing and makes a great silent comeback.
    Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Though Nelson did not co-write the song, these words would fit with what he’s said about marijuana in the past, and how in his view taking it up saved him from becoming a mean drunk.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The Belvédère sits on the hill leading down to Cerbère, a cheerful, desperate town at the bottom of France, where the Pyrenees collapse into the sea like staggering drunks.
    Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2020
  • One 15-year-old Arizona girl is accusing her mother of running her over while driving drunk.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • There is nothing in the police report to indicate that anyone asked the adult Olea about the booze that sent a drunk, wobbly and disheveled 18-year-old wandering down a dark road in the wee hours.
    Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Throw in the sense of relief that many people felt when Trump came off as something other than a belligerent drunk, unlike in the first debate, and the president won on points.
    Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 24 Oct. 2020

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