inebriate

Testimonials to the cup that cheers but does not inebriate have been culled from Thackeray, Athaeneus, Pliny, Aristotle, Galen, Plutarch.

From Time Magazine Archive

What to drink that won't inebriate Put on weight or contain cyclamate.

From Time Magazine Archive

United Architects entered a widely seen proposal in the competition, an ensemble of five slightly inebriate towers.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was an earthly personification of Emily Dickinson's inebriate of air and debauchee of dew, stoned on life and art.

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Ha!" shouted he, inebriate with passion, as her pallid face turned to his, "is this your game?

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

And as a pair, they can be as quick, acerbic and caustically funny as the inebriates in the classic English movie “Withnail and I,” which is saying a lot.

From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2015

Snug as a bug, the cup he waits That cheers but not inebriates, She offers him a truly ducal tea, Whipped up, she says, with no diffewclty.

From Time Magazine Archive

In China, to get natives to buy kerosene, Standard salesmen sold lamps for less than a song, for a cheep as inebriates of Singapore used to say.

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Time wore off the effects of the harmless debauch, and restored the giddy revellers to the regimen of sober thought, as reformed spiritual inebriates.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

As the reader is about entering a country where the laboring classes draw largely upon nature for their supply of "the cup that cheers but not inebriates," I will describe the shrub which produces it.

From Voyage of the Paper Canoe A Geographical Journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5. by Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop

In the end, the idleness inherent in a vacation lays bare Ashim, whom Aparna catches sight of while he is washing up outdoors and while dancing in an inebriated state with his comrades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

He said when Depp was inebriated, he would also “insult his fans” and call them “remoras,” also known as suckerfish.

From Washington Post ● May 17, 2022

Cuomo defended the food-with-drinks rule over his concerns about inebriated people mingling at bars without social distancing.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 28, 2021

Behind a group of Russian speakers huddled around a bucket of beers, a slightly inebriated and very friendly Brit grabs an extremely tall man and says, “Hey! Which team are you on?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2016

What Disraeli said of Gladstone was also true of Churchill: he was “a sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

I was overcome by exhilarating, almost inebriating, episodes of gratitude overload brought on by an appreciation of small pleasures.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022

Museums and thousands of cool regional events often need volunteers, and the perks can be inebriating.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2011

They fear a new age of philistinism, a moment when the nation finally gives up on serious culture and focuses instead on making money and inebriating itself on talent contests and celebrity chat shows.

From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2011

The odors of peanuts, mustard and beer waft over the emerald green grass, and in the inebriating sunshine, laughter and catcalls issue from the bleachers.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was something inebriating in the suppleness of this feat.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles