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
• 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

• 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 | [e-mail], 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 5 Jun 2024