How to Use DUI in a Sentence

DUI

abbreviation or noun

• For all of the shock and awe, the answer seems about as clear-cut as Karen’s DUI conviction.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
• The two-count complaint doesn’t include any DUI charges, records show.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
• This is not the first time Bryan has had some trouble with the law or the first time he's been arrested for a DUI.
  — Janelle Ash, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2024
• She was arrested earlier in the week on DUI and hit-and-run charges.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2023
• Lara had lost custody of her son because of a DUI charge, her father said.
  — Bradley Davis, NBC News, 10 July 2023
• Twist in case of driver accused in DUI crash that killed bride on wedding night.
  — Fox News, 3 Dec. 2024
• Along with manslaughter, Payne pleaded guilty to charges of DUI and hit-and-run causing death.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2023
• Vazquez Gongora, who turned 18 less than a month before the crash, is also charged with carjacking, hit-and-run and DUI.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2023
• The 58-year-old driver of the pickup truck was arrested on suspicion of DUI.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2024
• Shannon Beador has been charged after she was arrested for DUI hit and run.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
• That was the day Shannon was arrested for DUI and hit-and-run after driving her car into a house.
  — Peter Larsen, Orange County Register, 12 July 2024
• Local news reports said the DUI could affect Newell’s wish to obtain a liquor license for her business.
  — Evan Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• The next few years were filled with several arrests for drug possession, a DUI, reckless driving and more.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
• The two remained friends but stopped speaking in late September, not long after her she was arrested for a DUI.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
• Police said that the child's father was in the passenger seat of the car and was booked on charges of child abuse, endangerment and aggravated DUI.
  — Aidan Wohl, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
• Plus, random breath testing stations for DUI’s are common.
  — Chloe Sachdev, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2024
• The two were together for more than three years and remained friends but stopped speaking in late September, not long after she was arrested for a DUI.
  — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 12 July 2024
• Kardashian was arrested for DUI in March 2007, and was sentenced to three years probation.
  — Diane J. Cho, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
• Howard faces eight counts of DUI manslaughter, as authorities say his pickup truck striking the bus is what pushed it off the road and onto a grassy area on the outskirts of the city of Dunnellon.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 16 May 2024
• Stoms was released and will later appear in court in connection with a traffic summons related to the DUI charge, police said.
  — Kate Linderman, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
• One local outlet called him Ottawa’s fifth best DUI attorney.
  — Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 9 Sep. 2024
• He was arrested on the felony DUI charge, along with felony charges of hit-and-run causing a death and driving under the influence within 10 years of a previous felony conviction, jail records show.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 20 Feb. 2025
• Since then, Jacobs has been suspended twice more for actions related to alcohol, including a 2018 plea of no contest to a DUI.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 11 July 2024
• When officials arrested him this week, Stout was still on probation for a DUI, the district attorney’s office said.
  — Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• Additionally, police say a traffic stop was conducted near the home and resulted in the arrest of an underage teen for a DUI.
  — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025
• Court records also show that Eastwood was previously arrested in 2015 but pleaded no contest to a DUI charge, and the case was ultimately dismissed.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
• Box’s problems apparently came to a head in Jacksonville where he was charged with DUI, careless driving and possession of an open container of alcohol.
  — Chris Joyner The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), al, 22 Aug. 2023
• It was later determined she had been previously convicted of DUI in 2019.
  — Wkrc Staff, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2025
• In December, he was sentenced to one week at a DUI education center as well as two years’ probation, one for each of his misdemeanor charges for reckless endangerment.
  — Hannah Sacks, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
• Wallen pleaded guilty and was ultimately sentenced to seven days in a DUI education center and two years supervised probation.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2025