drunkenly

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Even Danvers encounters the same polar bear Navarro saw on Christmas Eve as she's drunkenly driving away from her lover and wakes up from dreaming of Holden.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2024

The Auckland native plays Jessie, a charming, self-centered, late-20s New Zealand slacker living in London who drunkenly hooks up with and is then courted by international movie star Tom Kapoor.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2022

Perhaps that’s because, in another break from the country norm, her marriage died quietly rather than with anybody drunkenly riding a lawnmower into town.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2021

Two decades later, I still vividly recall the buzzing, drunkenly anticipatory energy of opening night of the Broadway blockbuster “The Producers,” the most electric audience that I have ever been a part of.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2021

Hyacinth and daffodil bloomed in the flower beds, violet and periwinkle in the meadows; damp, bedraggled white butterflies fluttered drunkenly in the hedgerows.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt