drunk
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He said there "were two cups of tea" in the house that had hardly been drunk, giving the impression "that she'd invited somebody in".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
In an egg-and-spoon race, no one gets lonely or drunk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
At the beginning of the study, participants completed detailed food questionnaires describing what they had eaten and drunk during the previous year.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Haddad, in his 60s, said he and his daughter had drunk six litres of water between them in a single day.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
When he had eaten the rest, however, and drunk deep from the water jar, he felt almost as empty as before.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Otto von Bismarck’s special providence for “fools, drunks, and the United States of America” may be coming to the aid of the current incumbent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
The pair met “a maddening, intriguing, colorful world of dictators and drunks, scoundrels and socialites, heroes and halfwits,” per Peter Moreira in “Hemingway on the China Front.”
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
"Both my daughters are young doctors and they tell me that hospital campuses are overrun by anti-social elements, drunks and touts," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024
The leader of a grass roots group supporting servicemen and women, Brigadier General pilot Dariusz Wronski, said soldiers were really outraged by the film, which he said showed them as drunks and thugs.
From Reuters ● Sep. 20, 2023
Only the pigeons, the drunks, and the trees were left in the little park.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
The pool women involved themselves, displaying a remarkable capacity to seem drunker in a crisis, despite the fact that they weren’t drinking, as if drawing on unseen reserves.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
“The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. Bit louder, bit trashier, bit drunker, and more easily bought.”
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2018
Ravick had been in power too long, and he was drunker on it than Bish Ware ever got on Baldur honey-rum.
From Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper
But in times such as these, an awards broadcast can serve some purpose beyond distraction — even a show whose claim to fame is catching celebrities at their drunkest and loosest.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2020
O villain! thy lips ate scarce wiped since thou drunkest last.
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
