drunk
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“Do we hold bars responsible for the things drunk people do on public sidewalks?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Testing by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation showed that two people had drunk from the bottle, leaving a mixture of their DNA.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
You’ve seen it, I’ve seen it, your second cousin who gets too drunk at every family wedding has seen it.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
When Kayley asked Amelia why, she says her daughter would reply that she had not drunk anything all day, "so I wouldn't need to go to the toilet".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
That milk is drunk by the children of men alone and without it they will not wake to life.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
But nearby police officers who weren’t part of the production thought they were just two drunks having fun and yelled at them to get down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
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
“Peacemaker” creator James Gunn is fully aware of the music’s association with stinky Spandex, spittle and sloppy beer drunks.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 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
Big Bol was a bouncer at the Crow Club, perfectly suited to tossing out drunks and wasters, but too heavy on his feet to be much use when it came to a real tussle.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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
