drunkard

Example Sentences

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All to communicate that this was a vigorous, healthy man of action, not an ailing drunkard.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

With imaginative sympathy Tolstoy becomes a general in battle, a young girl at her first ball, a disillusioned prince, a drunkard, a lover—often amid a backdrop “laden with snow.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Every episode is a tantalising prospect as the story gallops towards a conclusion like a windmilling drunkard, and none have disappointed so far.

From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2017

I live alone in a ramshackle Austin house that, by all accounts, was constructed by a drunkard before the advent of the square right angle.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2014

Melisandre knew a few by name: the cook Three-Finger Hobb, Mully with his greasy orange hair, the dim-witted boy called Owen the Oaf, the drunkard Septon Celladar.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin