How to Use intoxicated in a Sentence

intoxicated

adjective

• He appeared to be very intoxicated.
• Driving while intoxicated is illegal.
• The aerial drone hovered low over the rooftop of a yellow clapboard home where Salinas police were looking for an intoxicated man allegedly brandishing a weapon.
  — Deepa Fernandes, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 July 2021
• To study the effect consuming alcohol in a social setting has on behavior, the researchers used intoxicated fruit flies or Drosophila.
  — New Atlas, 9 Aug. 2024
• Would limits on alcohol service on planes and in airports prevent unruly behavior by intoxicated travelers?
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2024
• So there are two versions of the dance in the episode: the good one and the intoxicated one.
  — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• Two-thirds of the time, the crashes are the result of intoxicated drivers.
  — Dallas News, 15 Oct. 2022
• The first targets of this campaign are British males between the ages of 18 to 35—the subject of one of the video ads is an intoxicated young Brit.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2023
• Talk to the valet if someone is too intoxicated to drive.
  — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2022
• While Yee-jae learns lessons about the value of human life, Tae-u becomes intoxicated by the idea of killing.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Three of his friends had been run over and killed in their tents by an intoxicated driver who swerved onto the sidewalk.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• The league said the discipline was in response to Morant’s live streaming of a video on March 4 in which he was seen holding a firearm in an intoxicated state.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
• The two men talked for about 30 minutes, Thorpe said, adding that Newkirk seemed intoxicated.
  — Jay Valle, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• The other man had an out of county warrant for DUI and was too intoxicated to care for himself.
  — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
• When Biden, Sr., was a teen-ager, his mother, Mary, would send him to the local gin mill to retrieve his intoxicated father.
  — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• She was found to be too intoxicated to care for herself in public.
  — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• The woman was seated in the driver seat of her car and appeared intoxicated.
  — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
• The teen was on an idling jet ski on a Kentucky lake near her father's home when an intoxicated boater slammed into her at more than 60 mph.
  — Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
• One male, who was visibly intoxicated, was yelling and spitting on the floor.
  — Zach Mentz, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2023
• Eventually, due to his intoxicated state, the man fell asleep against the fence with the knife resting in his open hand, officials said.
  — Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Sep. 2021
• Deputies said the woman confirmed the grandfather had given her money to take the child to the thrift store, and that the grandfather was highly intoxicated.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 7 May 2024
• But the McCrossens woke the next morning and headed to Time Square to catch a glimpse of all the revelry, romance and intoxicated hope and optimism of the previous night.
  — Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
• The now intoxicated team has to fight through their impairments, overcome their personal issues, find the real bomb and save the world.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
• Deputies were dispatched at 9:26 p.m. for reports of an intoxicated person with a weapon.
  — The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 2022
• The woman next to them swapped seats to sit with her husband, and she was replaced by the passenger from hell — an intoxicated man who asked for a vodka on the rocks before the flight even took off, the suit says.
  — John Annese, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2023
• The group subsequently went to the boyfriend’s house where the intoxicated woman and her boyfriend went to bed, prosecutors said.
  — Bay City News Service, The Mercury News, 22 July 2024
• He was charged with driving while intoxicated and will be arraigned once a date is assigned, police said.
  — Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 29 June 2024
• The intoxicated driver, who failed field sobriety tests, refused to take a breath test.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 7 Apr. 2022
• No wonder there were so many intoxicated boomers dancing on the bleachers like a bunch of twentysomethings.
  — Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
• Taylor had previously been detained in College Station for driving while intoxicated and unlawfully carrying a weapon charges in 2022, per People.
  — Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024