drunkenly
Example Sentences
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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
A squirrel in Minnesota has enjoyed an early and especially festive start to the holiday season by being videoed apparently drunkenly feasting on pears that had fermented and become alcoholic.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2020
She dyes her hair Tang orange, begins working with a choreographer and sings springy pop songs about butts, all of which she does without wavering, even when Jackson drunkenly criticizes her for being inauthentic.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2018
The television was on but the volume was off so that the dancing people looked as if they were swaying drunkenly.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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