drunk 1 of 3

drunk

2 of 3

noun

drunk

3 of 3

verb

variants or drank
past participle of drink

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of drunk
Adjective
But Mussorgsky would rather stay in the ditch, drunk. Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025 Rivera had been jailed at Santa Rita since May 2022, after California Highway Patrol officers arrested him on suspicion of murder for allegedly driving drunk and causing a crash that killed a woman. Stephanie Lam, Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
Marijuana, which went mainstream decades ago, is hardly worth mentioning anymore; stoners are merely later-generation drunks in the book of comical inebriation. Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025 Siegfried and Tristan return to town drunk, their shirttails out, holding nearly empty bottles of wine. Alice Burton, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
Verb
The study also noted that those who drank less than a cup of tea had a lower chance of developing hypopharyngeal cancer — which develops in the bottom part of the throat, per John Hopkins Medicine. Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 26 Feb. 2025 As participants ate and drank their way through the three days, researchers kept close tabs on their oral and gut microbiota. Sarah Garone, Health, 4 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for drunk
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drunk
Adjective
  • In the plane with me were the pilot and our drunken passenger.
    Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2025
  • Her continued testimony is expected to play a crucial role in the trial over whether Read killed O’Keefe, her boyfriend, in January 2022 with her SUV during a drunken fit of rage, or whether she was framed for his murder by law enforcement officers.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Her father was an alcoholic, while her mother, separately, was in an abusive relationship, eventually leading Tui to find a home at a women’s refuge.
    George Ramsay and Amanda Davies, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
  • An alcoholic, my mother was highly abusive, both psychologically and physically.
    Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • With this Republican trifecta in place comes the opportunity to pass a reconciliation bill that not only extends the Trump tax cuts but also addresses the economic fallout from the Biden administration’s reckless regulatory and spending spree.
    Stewart Whitson, Boston Herald, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Amidst Texas’s fiercest heat-wave on the eve of Ramadan fasting, three young Muslims reluctantly plunge into a crime spree to save their community, confronting the gritty underworld of Houston and their own struggle for power.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Built in the 17th century, the national monument is made of native coquina stones, which absorbed or deflected enemy projectiles, giving the Spanish an advantage.
    Kara Franker, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Tariffs are passed on to consumers, not absorbed by exporting nations.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Sacramento Bee reached out to the Sacramento Police Department and legal experts to find out: What is considered impaired driving under California law?
    David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The bank also reduced its expectations for corporate earnings across most asset classes, citing impaired sentiment and cooling economic growth.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • And that starts this week with this ten episode binge dump.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • And who wants to tell Peacock that Organized Crime Season 5 is a weekly release, not a binge drop?
    Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Sun-soaked and beautiful, the film takes place in Santa Barbara in 1979, where Dorothea (Annette Bening) is trying to raise her son (Lucas Jade Zumann) in an ever-changing world.
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • More than an inch of rain over several days soaked the grounds making muddy hills slippery and dangerous, forcing most spectators onto the narrow walkways and creating huge, impassable (and in some places, scary) bottlenecks.
    Candace Oehler, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The burritos are filled with home fries-ish bits of potato, cheddar cheese, three eggs cooked on the griddle, sausage or fried bacon.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • For brunch, there are the likes of Stillhouse Eggs Benedict with fried green tomatoes, Koko’s Biscuits & Gravy, and Chicken & Waffles.
    Susan B. Barnes, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025

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“Drunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drunk. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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