drunken

Example Sentences

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It would also have been nice if, instead of circling notes like a drunken canary, Mr. Attmore had landed with a bit more frequency.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

PC Pritchard, who joined North Wales Police as a trainee in 2023, admitted her drunken behaviour was inappropriate, but denied it was gross misconduct.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

His "drunken monkey" hypothesis initially met resistance from many scientists, especially primatologists, who argued that primates in the wild do not commonly eat fermented fruits or nectar.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025

That’s where viewers of Season 3 got to hear creator Mike White break down everything from Saxon and Lochlan’s drunken exploits to Chelsea and Rick’s doomed ending.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2025

Radiating out from Awkaypata was a drunken spiderweb of forty-one crooked, spiritually powerful lines, known as zeq’e, that linked holy features of the landscape: springs, tombs, caves, shrines, fields, stones.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann