How to Use punch-drunk in a Sentence

punch-drunk

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• Candy thought so too, later recalling that the only hard part of filming the scene was doing it over and over again for Hughes and his punch-drunk crew.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
• The yen looked punch-drunk on Wednesday after a sudden spill overnight, pressured by wide interest rate differentials between Japan and the rest of the world.
  — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 19 June 2026
• Guiducci arrives at a moment when some of that anger has subsided, and the punch-drunk culture seems counterintuitively eager to escape into nostalgia and tastemaking, splashy profiles, and — just sometimes — confrontational journalism.
  — Max Tani, semafor.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• The Florida Gators staggered into Texas on Saturday looking like a punch-drunk prizefighter who had spent the previous two weeks getting his teeth knocked out, his nose rearranged and his dignity dragged through the mud.
  — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2026
• In the 1994 midterms, when Bill Clinton’s presidency was bludgeoned half to death by the Newt Gingrich revolution, The New Yorker’s Michael Kelly described the punch-drunk shock inside the White House.
  — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 4 Nov. 2026