dead drunk
Example Sentences
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A storm, attempted murders, witches, wizards, invisible spirits, revolutions, characters drinking until they’re dead drunk, an angry monster named Caliban—can you believe it?
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
Is the fellow to that to be found in literature, ancient or modern, foreign or domestic, living or dead, drunk or sober?
From The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain
O'Grady, I think that the fact of the dead having come to life, and having been put to bed dead drunk, proves disastrous for your argument, even admitting its soundness.
From The History and Records of the Elephant Club by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
"Doctor, doctor," shouted he in great pain,—"here, here—it is me that is murdered—that chap is only dead drunk, but I am really dead, or will be, if you don't help."
From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott
Iago retorts: "Why, he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead drunk," and gains, the speaker explains, easy mastery over the German and the Hollander.
From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Sir Sidney Lee
