drunkenness

Example Sentences

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But no complaints of drunkenness had been made by local residents, and indeed the licence was renewed the following month.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2023

“Limit noise and drunkenness, clean up your mess and don’t pee in the canals. Keep in mind the locals and they will welcome you with open arms.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

Reformers often regarded problems like poverty and drunkenness as the result of a lack of self-discipline and of a strong moral compass.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Big swaths of the novel take place in the liminal spaces between consciousness and sleep, drunkenness and sobriety, life and death.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2021

And if he could do that, behind his mask of sarcasm and drunkenness, so convincingly and for so long, what else has he lied about?

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins