How to Use intoxication in a Sentence
intoxication
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One of the friends, the 17-year-old girl, took at least one of the pills and died from acute fentanyl intoxication.
—Andrea Klick, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2025
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It was not known if intoxication played a role in the crash.
—cleveland, 22 July 2021
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A lot of those hours of cannabis intoxication are while people are on the job or in school.
—Marin Cogan, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
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The alchemy and intoxication of the moment was like a drug.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 19 Feb. 2024
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Yet even as the crimes or the forms of intoxication evolve, the power of the symbolic meal persists.
—Jessica Carbone, Saveur, 24 Oct. 2024
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The driver of the truck was not injured and showed no signs of intoxication, police said.
—Carlie Wells, NOLA.com, 15 Jan. 2021
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The driver of the vehicle did not show any signs of intoxication and remained at the scene.
—Kerria Weaver, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
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In some ways, the intoxication is an antidote to the torture and loss portrayed in the earlier parts of the book.
—Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
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The woman, identified as the mother of the 2-month-old and 1-year-old, showed signs of intoxication, the sheriff said.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Jan. 2025
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Marroquin is the third person in the last decade to die from water intoxication in a San Diego jail.
—Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
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Marroquin is the third person in the last decade to die from water intoxication in a San Diego jail.
—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2021
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According to the court's recitation of the facts, the victim passed out from intoxication and woke up while being raped.
—Mark Wagner, Star Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021
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Police said the 29-year-old driver did not show any signs of intoxication.
—Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
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In that video, he is seen drinking whiskey and later, begins to show signs of intoxication.
—Paul Murphy and Aileen Graef, CNN, 13 Apr. 2022
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This isn’t the first time that Ballard’s has faced complaints about rowdiness and intoxication at the venue.
—Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2022
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Blount County Sheriff Mark Moon said the incident happened in late 2022 when the man was brought to the jail on a public intoxication charge.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 1 Feb. 2023
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The cause of death was acute opiate and cocaine intoxication.
—Rolfe Winkler, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
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The 32-year-old North Olmsted man showed signs of intoxication and was field tested.
—Bruce Geiselman, cleveland, 16 July 2022
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The most recent case before this week was a public intoxication charge brought against him in Abilene in March 2019.
—Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2021
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His total bail for the public intoxication and theft charges was $1,000.
—Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
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This is the reason why healthcare providers check your pupils when there is a concern about intoxication or overdose.
—Troy Bedinghaus, Od, Verywell Health, 17 July 2023
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The man was found in the parking lot across the street and was cited for disorderly conduct-intoxication.
—Cheryl Higley, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2021
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The prosecutor said the cause of death was acute intoxication from sleeping pills.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Dec. 2022
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Police woke the Shaker Heights man, 31, who showed signs of intoxication.
—cleveland, 18 Dec. 2020
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The paramedics were in the process of evaluating Collins when the deputies arrested him for public intoxication.
—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2021
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The problem with the show is this intoxication with scale and muchness: Not all of Deep Blue Sea feels as gorgeously considered as its first half hour.
—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2021
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Members of the crew were given an alcohol test to see whether intoxication was the cause of their negligence.
—Adam Elmahrek, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2021
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In the film, Geppetto’s evening of intoxication is fueled by grief.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
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But the officers arrested him on a charge of public intoxication and took him to the county jail, according to the lawsuit.
—Julia Marnin, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2025
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However, the deputy noted that the man showed four out of eight indicators of intoxication during the walk and turn test and four out of four indicators during the one leg stand test, the lawsuit said.
—Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2025
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