How to Use intoxicated in a Sentence

intoxicated

adjective

• He appeared to be very intoxicated.
• Driving while intoxicated is illegal.
• So there are two versions of the dance in the episode: the good one and the intoxicated one.
  — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• Two-thirds of the time, the crashes are the result of intoxicated drivers.
  — Dallas News, 15 Oct. 2022
• The first targets of this campaign are British males between the ages of 18 to 35—the subject of one of the video ads is an intoxicated young Brit.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2023
• Talk to the valet if someone is too intoxicated to drive.
  — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2022
• While Yee-jae learns lessons about the value of human life, Tae-u becomes intoxicated by the idea of killing.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• Three of his friends had been run over and killed in their tents by an intoxicated driver who swerved onto the sidewalk.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• The league said the discipline was in response to Morant’s live streaming of a video on March 4 in which he was seen holding a firearm in an intoxicated state.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
• The two men talked for about 30 minutes, Thorpe said, adding that Newkirk seemed intoxicated.
  — Jay Valle, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• When Biden, Sr., was a teen-ager, his mother, Mary, would send him to the local gin mill to retrieve his intoxicated father.
  — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
• She was found to be too intoxicated to care for herself in public.
  — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
• One male, who was visibly intoxicated, was yelling and spitting on the floor.
  — Zach Mentz, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2023
• But the McCrossens woke the next morning and headed to Time Square to catch a glimpse of all the revelry, romance and intoxicated hope and optimism of the previous night.
  — Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
• The now intoxicated team has to fight through their impairments, overcome their personal issues, find the real bomb and save the world.
  — Breanna Bell, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
• Deputies were dispatched at 9:26 p.m. for reports of an intoxicated person with a weapon.
  — The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 2022
• The woman next to them swapped seats to sit with her husband, and she was replaced by the passenger from hell — an intoxicated man who asked for a vodka on the rocks before the flight even took off, the suit says.
  — John Annese, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2023
• The intoxicated driver, who failed field sobriety tests, refused to take a breath test.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 7 Apr. 2022
• No wonder there were so many intoxicated boomers dancing on the bleachers like a bunch of twentysomethings.
  — Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
• Then, in March 2020, Gillum was found intoxicated and unconscious in a hotel room with two men, including one who works as a male escort.
  — Orlando Sentinel, 25 Dec. 2022
• Police were called to the scene after the 32-year-old actor, who appeared intoxicated, allegedly entered the hotel and took a bag of chips without paying for the item.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• In an intoxicated fever dream, Don Quixote ascends to a mythical cloudland full of dancing dryads.
  — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2022
• His mother showed up for one day of his trial in October but was so intoxicated that sheriff’s deputies removed her from court, Okeke said.
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2023
• The chaos spilled over onto the dock and the ferry itself, leading to fights and several arrests, after intoxicated patrons left the resort.
  — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022
• The second night, Schwetz was seen intoxicated at the hotel bar straddling a man before others, including the researcher, pulled her away.
  — Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
• An intoxicated and emaciated 57-year-old woman had jumped out in front of a moving No. 15 bus, shouted at the driver to stop, and then pushed her way onboard.
  — Eli Saslow, Anchorage Daily News, 7 June 2022
• The boy was located a short time later in a confused and intoxicated state and taken to a local hospital for treatment.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2023
• Prosecutors said Paul Flores was the last person seen with a very intoxicated Smart and walked her home from an off campus party.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 10 Mar. 2023
• The intoxicated driver did not have a driver’s license, was using a fictitious license plate and used a Nicaraguan passport for his ID.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 30 Jan. 2023
• Prosecutors said Flores was the last person seen with a very intoxicated Smart and walked her home from an off-campus party.
  — Todd Miyazawa, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 7 May 2024