get drunk

Example Sentences

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Although basketball people get drunk on expectations and projections every year at the NBA draft, this feels different — the kind of buzz that’s only accompanied the smallest handful of modern players.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2023

As Treasure Jones, Lily refuses to let her doughboy clients get drunk: “We owe it to their mothers to protect their livers.”

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2020

Though he did write that "drowning the shamrock... by no means implies that it is necessary to get drunk in doing so".

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2019

I go out and have fun but I rarely get drunk and I wake up fresh and energised.

From The Guardian • Sep. 27, 2017

The Frenchmen smiled, but their manner was constrained and they seemed in no mood to get drunk.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan