DRUNK in a Sentence

Learn DRUNK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
197 example sentences for DRUNK, such as:
1. Men were rough of speech and often drunk.
2. He received a prison term for drunk driving.
3. I got completely drunk at my sister's wedding.
4. Dr. Meade did not make a very convincing drunk.
5. Even the bull seemed to feel sorry for the drunk.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DRUNK
drunk
 n.  a chronic drinker
 a.  as if under the influence of alcohol
Classic Sentence: (171 in 12 pages)
1  Gerald was disappointed, for he had wanted a son, but he nevertheless was pleased enough over his small black-haired daughter to serve rum to every slave at Tara and to get roaringly, happily drunk himself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Men were rough of speech and often drunk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Scarlett, looking at him with the affectionate contempt that mothers feel for small swaggering sons, knew that he would be very drunk by sundown.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  They've been drunk and picking fights ever since we got to Richmond.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  His face was the face of a man drunk with fatigue and impotent rage and burning pity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  Most of them were drunk and the soldiers on whose arms they hung were drunker.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  She did not know she was drunk, drunk with fatigue and whisky.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  And a reception with toasts drunk to the bride in Miss Pitty's parlor amid happy friends would have been a joy to him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  He got real drunk, and after Suellen had argued and nagged a couple of hours he gave in and said Yes, he'd sign anything she wanted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
10  The negroes insisted on being paid every day and they frequently got drunk on their wages and did not turn up for work the next morning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
11  She knew neither Rhett nor Ashley was drunk and she knew Melanie knew they were not drunk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
12  Yet here was Melanie, usually so gentle and refined, screaming like a shrew and in front of Yankees too, that both of them were too drunk to walk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
13  "Melly, I ain't so very drunk," mumbled Ashley, and with the words fell forward and lay face down on the table, his head buried in his arms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
14  They can't run away in this condition--and I never knew before that it was illegal to get drunk in a sporting house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  Dr. Meade did not make a very convincing drunk.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  As soon as you have drunk, you turn your back upon the spring.
2  I eventually found them in a bar, both as drunk as skunks.
3  David would get drunk and I would have to take him home and put him to bed.
4  Fresh orange juice should be refrigerated after opening and drunk within three days.
5  I got completely drunk at my sister's wedding.
6  People who drive when they are drunk should be heavily penalized.
7  Perhaps she gets drunk to obliterate painful memories.
8  Greg tipped police off on his car phone about a suspect drunk driver.
9  He said that Lizzie had been drunk at the time and I saw her shoot him a withering glance.
10  Even the bull seemed to feel sorry for the drunk.
11  Her speech was slurred but she still denied she was drunk.
12  You could tell from his slurred speech that he was drunk.
13  A drunk in the station was haranguing passers-by.
14  People tend to lose their inhibitions when they've drunk a lot of alcohol.
15  He received a prison term for drunk driving.