drunken

How To Use drunken In A Sentence

• The mobs of drunken men are whooping it up upstairs.
• Around me the room was pleasantly dark, rolling in drunken contentedness.
• On the sidewalk Soapy began to yell drunken gibberish at the top of his harsh voice.
• There's no insight into Alexander's transition from beloved leader to drunken megalomaniac; one minute he has his subjects hanging on his every word, and then next thing you know he's declaring himself a god.
• Some of his more drunken friends burst into song.
• The laughter wasn't very loud, it sounded normal, unlike the laughter of a madman, or a drunken pirate.
• The jury later wrote to the coroner, deploring the fact that an unseaworthy ship could put to sea with a drunken captain.
• He's apologizing for what he calls his despicable words after he was arrested for drunken driving. CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2006
• Tenements, rookeries, and cheap rooming districts exercised a huge symbolic power over the public imagination as centres of vice, squalor, drunkenness, traffic in sex and stolen goods, and general depravity.
• Overeating and drunkenness both violated social moral codes, although the latter appears to have been a much weightier transgression: intoxication is frequently listed among the serious crimes — "pleasurable living," adultery, theft — mentioned by Sahagún's informants. 47 Indigenous drinking practices also shocked Spaniards who had their own ideals of moderation when it came to alcohol consumption, a topic that we look at in Chapter 4. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico