How to Use sober in a Sentence

sober

1 of 2 adjective

• The story is a sober look at drug abuse.
• The article is a sober reflection on the state of our nation.
• He is a sober, hardworking farmer.
• I'm driving, so I have to stay sober tonight.
• Illness is a sober reminder of our mortality.
• By the time of the hearing, the veteran was 560 days sober.
  — Beth Warren, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2023
• By his own account, the younger Biden had been sober since June 2019.
  — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 8 Dec. 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
• This is your only warning to slow down and drive sober.
  — Alexis Stevens, ajc, 2 July 2023
• Trejo would be released from prison for the final time in 1969 and has been sober since.
  — Colin Scanlon, Redbook, 17 Aug. 2023
• Tiffany Haddish has revealed that she’s been sober for more than two months.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2024
• In the business world, founders are adopting a sober lifestyle and reaping the rewards as well.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 5 Apr. 2023
• Who can look the most nonchalant, the most sober and yet the most elevated?
  — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• However, Kauffman said that Perry was sober at the time of his death.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
• For Armstrong, who has been sober for years, the song has a deeply personal meaning.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 7 Dec. 2023
• Vanderpump Rules star Lala Kent has been sober since 2018.
  — Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2023
• The board claimed that the church helped Houston get sober and that Houston apologized to the woman in question.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
• And my husband and I have a daughter, Courtney, who is 16 years sober and bipolar.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024
• Aside from a few one-off, one-drink instances, she’s been sober since January.
  — Drew Schwartz, SELF, 12 Sep. 2023
• Todd was known as a Jekyll-and-Hyde type, Flock writes—sweet when sober, terrifying when high on a cocktail of meth and Xanax.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• At the time, Biden, who had been addicted to crack cocaine, was struggling to remain sober.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2023
• After a bout with alcoholism in his late 20s, Rob has been sober for nearly 30 years.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 14 Mar. 2023
• Rob Lowe gifted his son John Owen with a special surprise as Owen marked five years of being sober.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2023
• Fortunately, the leaders of the two Communist countries proved more sober than those in the White House.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• McDaniel had a candid talk with his team during the week about the eight-year anniversary of going sober.
  — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
• Clements has been sober for decades while in prison, according to attorneys.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• When urged to get sober for an the next season, Cloud was not interested, Levinson said.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• Getting sober of course meant repairing decades of damage, in my life and in others’.
  — Mike Scalise, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2023
• As the weather gets colder, this more sober shade of denim will be taking over instead of the usual navy blue or even black.
  — Renata Joffre, Glamour, 7 Sep. 2023
• There are plenty of good reasons to be interested in the trendy sober movement.
  — Allison Robicelli, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024

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sober

2 of 2 verb

• He returned home from the war, saddened and sobered by his experiences.
• All of the gymnastic moves from the night sobered me up.
  — The Cut, 17 Sep. 2017
• But the broader lessons of the north-east are sobering.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• That day, my dad sobered up and never had a drink the rest of his life.
  — Adam Bryant, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• Officers took the man to the Westlake jail to sober up and calm down.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2021
• And for the wise aunts who make strong coffee, so the crazy uncles may sober up.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 23 Dec. 2017
• Wrestling with the high cost of care The statistics are sobering.
  — Maria L. La Ganga, idahostatesman, 26 Aug. 2017
• The failure of the health care push also sobered Trump, allies say.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 11 Jan. 2018
• Workers who show up drunk these days are sent home to sober up.
  — Sydney Ember Kim Raff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• For small towns, mid-sized suburbs and big cities alike, the abrupt switch has been sobering.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 9 July 2019
• Schmidt explained to the nurse that there was nothing for her father to sober up from.
  — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2022
• The fact that Covid will always be with us should not freak people out but sober them up.
  — The Editors, National Review, 22 Dec. 2021
• The Knicks, who had fallen behind, were starting to sober up.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
• The stats are sobering: Nearly half of all women over the age 50 in the U.S. will break a bone due to the condition.
  — Madeleine Burry, Woman's Day, 15 Oct. 2019
• This is a movie in which the de-rigueur baptism scene is of the preacher himself being dunked to sober up.
  — Author: Ann Hornaday, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2018
• But one area of the house is sobering for those dispensing mean-girl slights.
  — Brad Wete, Billboard, 16 June 2017
• When divvied up by region, race and class, the results are sobering.
  — John Myers, latimes.com, 9 June 2019
• Trump seems, if anything, sobered by the gravity of his new role.
  — vanityfair.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• This is sobering news for the company, which has watched iPad sales drop for years.
  — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2020
• The policy is likely to sober up some of the heaviest drinkers.
  — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
• The past few weeks have been sobering for Deontay Long.
  — Mark Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2017
• Although the report is sobering, the study’s authors said there is hope.
  — Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• His father wound up signing the court summons and he was taken to the Bedford Jail to sober up.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 31 July 2021
• Primary voters should be sobered by the magnitude of the stakes.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2018
• Has any drunk person ever noshed on an apple to sober up?
  — William Earl, Variety, 21 Mar. 2022
• The stat is sobering and telling of a company in transition.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 23 June 2017
• This year’s free agent market, or lack thereof, had to be sobering for players and agents.
  — John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• After three rounds of bombs-away frivolity, Erin Hills sobered up.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 19 June 2017
• Still, the numbers for a player who is already on the short list of the best receivers in team history are sobering.
  — Bob Condotta, The Seattle Times, 9 Oct. 2018
• But after a week of sobering data, Lofven now seems to be striking a darker tone.
  — Niclas Rolander, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020

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