How to Use hungover in a Sentence

hungover

adjective

• If someone shows up to work hungover, for example, that’s bad.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
• Alex is going from horribly hungover to scared sober in a matter of five seconds.
  — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2023
• The crews of both Bellamy and Roberts were stinking drunk or hungover when they were caught or killed.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
• In a hungover daze from spending the whole night thinking, Lenù brings up breakfast for Lila.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
• Kingsbury said Manziel clearly was hungover during the pregame walkthrough, drenched in sweat.
  — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
• The pandemic-era boom in sales has given way to a post-covid slump, and many companies are left feeling hungover.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2025
• Acute mountain sickness, the least severe of the bunch, might be something easy to write off as just feeling a bit sick, or even hungover.
  — Allie Conti, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
• His caddie was just as hungover, but that didn't stop him from bringing Daly a Jack and Coke on the first tee.
  — Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
• The visual ends with a hungover Perry riding the train while drinking a bottle of water.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2024
• There are more chefs doing brunch now than ever because there is money to be made off the hordes of hungry and hungover weekend diners.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2019
• The story of the late Candy arriving late and hungover to Splash's set in order to shoot that scene has bounced around for some time.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
• Experts say this practice contributes to and might even prolong the fatigue and other symptoms that come along with being hungover.
  — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 10 Apr. 2025
• To set the tone, an early sequence has a hungover Nicola machine-gunning a snake in the kitchen, then ordering the help to clean up the blood.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
• In the morning, Ava is proud of Deborah’s wild night, but Deborah is hungover and ashamed.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 16 May 2024
• Part of the blame can be placed on the overall state of the real estate market that’s still hungover from historic pandemic sales and rising mortgage rates.
  — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• And, to make matters even worse, Luna was still hungover from the aforementioned wrap party when the incident occurred.
  — Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2025
• Belly got too drunk, called her mom for help, and poor worried Laurel arrived the next morning to find the house in shambles and her daughter a hungover wreck.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 13 Aug. 2023
• Tall villas as creamy as squill spike the cliffs, and there's a modern marina full of boats dotted with drying swimsuits and hungover yachters reading newspapers.
  — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2024
• Guardiola once said that his players were too hungover for that match, having clinched their fourth Premier League title in a row days earlier.
  — Sam Lee, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
• On the far end is Indiana native David Lee Roth, looking both painfully hungover and ready for the next party.
  — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 14 Mar. 2024
• By the time the game kicked off, everybody was either hungover or drained and Manchester United won 2-0 with some comfort.
  — Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
• Ubuntu's App Center (or sometimes Snap Store), now showing you results at a rapid clip instead of a hungover crawl.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2023
• If Curtis is like the drunk version of me, Isaac on Ghosts is like the hungover version of me, a little bit crankier, a little bit more frustrated and tired.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
• The Celtics didn’t look emotionally hungover Monday afternoon.
  — Jay King, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
• The prosecution has claimed that Gutierrez-Reed was drinking and smoking marijuana in the evenings during the production, and may have been hungover at the time of the shooting.
  — Variety, NBC News, 30 June 2023
• Southside Diner Championing all things fried and delicious, this iconic building has been nourishing hungover locals for over 40 years.
  — Christie Fitzpatrick, Outside Online, 2 Feb. 2023
• In his opening, Lewis did not raise another prosecution theory, that Gutierrez Reed was hungover or otherwise impaired on set.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
• Custodio said the prosecution's insinuation that Gutierrez-Reed was hungover might work in the defense's favor.
  — Susan Montoya Bryan, ajc, 15 June 2023
• In the restroom mirrors, framing your hungover reflection, were brand appropriations of taglines from some of Bravo’s biggest stars, themed around the pun of interpersonal drama as mess.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
• From outdriving Tiger Woods while hungover to lighting up crowds with his wild outfits and on-course banter, the 2-time major champion has delivered some of golf's unforgettable moments.
  — Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025