drunkard

Example Sentences

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With imaginative sympathy Tolstoy becomes a general in battle, a young girl at her first ball, a disillusioned prince, a drunkard, a lover—often amid a backdrop “laden with snow.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

"Our boy deserves answers and we as a family deserve answers. Nathan wasn't a drunkard who'd go out and forget about everything. Nathan was really with it," she said.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2025

Every episode is a tantalising prospect as the story gallops towards a conclusion like a windmilling drunkard, and none have disappointed so far.

From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2017

Ollmann clearly admires Seabrook’s writing and adventuresome spirit, the ways he was both the fearless boy reporter Tintin and the inept but noble drunkard Captain Haddock at the same time.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2017

Instead of a bumbling drunkard there now stood in the path of the mob a giant man.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya