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.
• Lots of drunk folks eat there all the time.
  — Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• Daniel didn’t push him; Clarence was just drunk.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
• No drunk person tries to act drunk.
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
• Never let a friend drive drunk.
  — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• Nor was getting drunk the point.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2026
• But don’t get drunk off the feeling.
  — Doug Haller, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
• To be drunk with someone is an act of trust.
  — Big Think, 15 Oct. 2025
• This game is beyond fall down drunk.
  — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
• He gets kicked out of school for being drunk.
  — Jessica Lipsky, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
• That’s when two drunk teen girls attacked her.
  — Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 2 June 2026
• Getting drunk might be bad for you but good for us.
  — Big Think, 15 Oct. 2025
• Of course, most of them have been too drunk to notice.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2026
• So don’t drive high or drunk and use your safety belts.
  — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
• But the human brain and body were not built to get drunk.
  — Big Think, 15 Oct. 2025
• Jere's too drunk to meet Belly at the beach.
  — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Ouch, Carter falling drunk off his horse.
  — William Earl, Variety, 26 June 2026
• And his father was a drunk and not a nice person.
  — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 14 June 2026
• But the longer the night went, the drunker Darcey got.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
• But line dances got danced, liquor got drunk, and the run of show got scrambled.
  — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
• 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
• Sheinbaum said the man appeared to be drunk.
  — Cassandra Garrison, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
• Andy was funny, volatile, lively, and very drunk.
  — David Manheim, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2026
• Like people gettin’ drunk and seein’ things.
  — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• Jeremiah is drunk, angry, and sad.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
• And Benjamin heads to a friendly pub to get drunk.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
• The men behind the coup had made a broadcast or two, but at least one of them was drunk.
  — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026

drunk

2 of 2 noun

• Like when Mark comes home drunk.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 14 May 2026
• Pearl is a guilty drunk and her drink of choice, too, is gin.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
• All of us kept an eye out for drunks, who tipped better.
  — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
• Dan, the big blond, kicks every drunk that comes near him.
  — Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
• Our purpose was not to get the campus drunk.
  — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
• Sawed it off drunk on something loaded with more proof than sense.
  — Tyehimba Jess, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
• Al Davis is spinning like a drunk’s bedroom.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2025
• Me, a former drunk and meth addict who could very well have rabies.
  — David Sedaris, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
• Her decision was to get behind the wheel drunk.
  — Briauna Brown, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
• His new assistant, Yancey, was a drunk.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
• For speeders, drunks, reckless drivers and the like.
  — Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 25 June 2026
• Booze was always on hand in those ballparks, and Bobby could be a mean drunk.
  — Jeremy Collins, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
• Rhys played a Mason who was rumpled, broke, divorced and a gloomy drunk.
  — Jeanne Jakle, ExpressNews.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• First off, the guy on the sidewalk outside the liquor store was a drunk, not an oracle.
  — David Sedaris, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
• 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
• Fennell chooses the former, and flawed or not, this drunk-on-pheromones take is all the better for it.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
• 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
• Charlie Sheen once piloted a jet drunk.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
• The drunk was our version of a Shakespearian clown—blunt and wise.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2021
• 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
• His own father, a crippled, cantankerous drunk, has been a source of shame to him.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
• His endless threats, coupled with his waves of cussing, make Trump sound like a drunk in a bar looking for a fight.
  — Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
• 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
• When Macy was growing up, her mother worked in a factory and her dad was known as the town drunk.
  — Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
• Yes, that is not a way to clear herself from the problem of very publicly calling Shannon a drunk.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
• My dad never said anything when my mom would show up at the house drunk and do insane stuff and knock down a Christmas tree.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 22 Dec. 2025
• Congress has been littered with racists and drunks and bribe-takers throughout its history.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2023
• Another had been arrested in Queens on a drunk-driving charge.
  — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2021
• The actors recognize that handling a room of drunks is performance.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023