How To Use Drunken In A Sentence

The faces he recognized were those of the laziest and most incapable workmen in the town -- men whose weekly wages were habitually docked for drunkenness, late hours, and botchy work. The Bread-winners A Social Study
He initially admitted having had three pints of beer but then blamed his drunkenness on the cake. The Sun
How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate? — Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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
I have not seen such a drunken shambles for ages - he was really struggling, slurring his words, the lot.
Every year at Christmas drunken driving takes its toll.
In a language that invents descriptive terms with drunken abandon, all food writers suffer from the meagre cupboard of gastronomic terms. Times, Sunday Times
He said tougher standards were needed to crack down on thugs and drunken yobs.
This child spent his first eleven years in San Francisco, trailing his father up and down the hills, watching him swim in San Francisco Bay, and cringing from the blows that a drunken dad might aim at his head. Robert Frost
Surely, days of giggling about drunken escapades were long gone, too?
They are extremely handsome and sensual, and glory in a drunken brawl.
It can be tough when your father, the prime minister, has just indulged in pulpitry about drunken yobs.
Contrary to popular myth , the majority of accidents are not caused by speeding or drunkenness.
‘I'm not anti-Semitic,’ Ken tells his ex-wife during a drunken barney at a New Year party.
They will deduce that there are fewer officers on the lookout for proper offenders, such as drunken drivers or those without insurance. Times, Sunday Times
Some come buzzing drunkenly off the ceiling, motor around loudly, and butt against the light.
Perhaps it was her upbringing in the slums of Dundee, where squalor and drunkenness were a sad part of daily life, that made her more able to cope.
It was claimed that after fleeing the property, Kilcullen drunkenly telephoned police and said he had carried out the attack because he was "skint". PinkNews.co.uk
Civil injunctions are enforced by the court staff and not by the police, but there is no means of calling out the tipstaff or bailiff at midnight on a Saturday night to deal with a drunken partner.
Glastonbury is stereotypically viewed as a four-day binge for mud-caked, drunken teenagers.
But if (to borrow language from the mint of Gorgias86), if only the attendants will bedew us with a frequent mizzle87 of small glasses, we shall not be violently driven on by wine to drunkenness, but with sweet seduction reach the goal of sportive levity. Symposium
Then he let the cony-catcher go and returned home, drunken with chagrin and concern as with wine. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Spade in hand, with his head full of Roman castrametation and geometrical problems, a prince, scarce emerged from boyhood, presents himself on that stage where grizzled Mansfelds, drunken Hohenlos, and truculent Verdugos have been so long enacting, that artless military drama which consists of hard knocks and wholesale massacres. History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete
He had been in a drunken street brawl.
All crimes great and small could be traced to postcapitalist avarice, egoism, sloth, parasitism, drunkenness, religious prejudices or inherited depravity. Gorky Park
She points to the Oscar Party Legs, the ones a drunken Jack Nicholson tried to violate after he won for Cuckoo's Nest, and the understated Nonprofit Fundraiser Legs she wore to Jerry Lewis Telethons, and the fake-tanned State Dinner with Reagan and Gorbachev Legs that the Secretary of State made her cover up with a long hemline, because their shade matched Gorbachev's birthmark. Centipede
The weekend's traffic effort from the Gardai was part of a national push to clamp down on dangerous and drunken driving.
Drunkenness in its first degree presents you with a miniature picture of the symptoms of the more advanced stages of ebriose poisoning.
Joe had never been privy to her thoughts and fears and dreams and giggling drunken confessions in the same unguarded way Chrissie had. FALLEN WOMEN
He talked of his harsh, unsympathetic upbringing in which his often drunken father physically abused his wife and children.
Cola said a blitz on drunken drivers over a seven-hour period resulted in 17 arrests.
That was until someone rapped on her door and her eyes open, the sun glaring into the window like a cop with a flashlight going to a car full of drunken teens.
He gave the women at the bar a drunken leer.
Dent started to walk away, but was arrested after swearing at police. He had already been fined for two other drunken episodes in April.
Their suffering is generally caused by adults: a parent has died, or run off, or otherwise acted irresponsibly, drunkenly, selfishly, dissolutely.
Could it be the drunken, tight-fisted old mother?
One night, I observed a group of drunken men waiting half an hour for the red lights to appear.
One afternoon everybody (except the sheriffs) were put on alert, because the "south-side" car was planning on making some pruno, and inside the walls of the camp that meant drunken gang members, which led to riots, usually. Strange Reaction
Her drunken antics this week almost made me switch off. The Sun
The driver arrested after the accident which killed former president Nelson Mandela's great grandchild will face a charge of drunken driving and culpable homicide, Gauteng police said.
I am off to my sister's house for a night of drunken revelry and debauchery.
Their traditional accompaniment is salsa borracha - “drunken sauce” - made with pasilla chiles and pulque. Wrap It Up: A Guide To Mexican Street Tacos - Part I
I drunkenly choked on the beer I was drinking at the time and felt suddenly sexually unsure about not only men in general but women in general as well.
Kurosawa initiated his best work in 1948 with Drunken Angel , in which he teamed Takashi Shimura ( as a blustery alcoholic doctor ) and a young Toshiro Mifune ( as a hotheaded gangster ) .
In upcoming scenes, the two have a drunken row and she dashes across the road. The Sun
I saw nothing of the man but his posture of loose-limbed, helpless drunkenness and the ill-assorted covering of filthy clothing that concealed it.
She had had three experiences in which she had collapsed in a "drunken" stupor while driving her car. An Alternative Approach to Allergies
Besides, there's various degrees of drunkenness, the term bein 'relative. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country
At night, our brainy babe sports a bikini, hits the local dive, and does the naked frug in front of a bunch of drunken longshoremen.
Tom got into a drunken brawl in a bar.
Rome would be the gainer by it if her very constables were elected to serve a century; for in our experience we have never even been able to choose a dog-pelter without celebrating the event with a dozen knockdowns and a general cramming of the station-house with drunken vagabonds overnight. Sketches New And Old
Commanders were to deglamorize drinking, educate service members on its harmful effects, punish drunken driving severely, and de-emphasize alcohol at social functions.
Though I never touched a drop of booze that day, I had a drunken smile on my face from start to finish.
They will deduce that there are fewer officers on the lookout for proper offenders, such as drunken drivers or those without insurance. Times, Sunday Times
I was sitting around the fire pit in my backyard with a handful of straight male friends when drunken conversation inevitably turned to sex.
She smashed up his car in a drunken rage.
A haven of genteel entertainment might persuade local residents that there were pleasurable and respectable alternatives to a knock-down drunken blowout every weekend.
They'll deny it to the day they die, but if my parents met any other way than by stumbling drunkenly into each other at some kegger, I'll eat my shoe.
The last festival I went to was terrorised by drunken yobbos and violent episodes.
In Roman times, a Bacchanalia was basically a very drunken orgy paying homage to the god of wine.
It sets the like o 'him, to be bringing a crew of drunken hunters here, when he kens there is but little preparation to sloken his ain drought. The Bride of Lammermoor
Drunken brawls represented the leading single source of homicide in late nineteenth-century Chicago.
We first meet him reelingly drunkenly out of a pub or betting shop, shouting four-letter abuse at a rate that might give James Kelman pause. Evening Standard - Home
As for Becky Sharp, with her treachery, her cruelty, her vindicativeness {sic}, perhaps we could better have understood and forgiven her had we known her lonely and neglected childhood, with the drunken artist father and her mother, the French opera girl. Fanny Herself
I confess that I am on friendly terms with about eight owners, and half of them are press chappies who ended up with a leg of a horse each as a result of a drunken outing to Aintree, York or wherever.
Pauline went on to say that others, in a drunken stupor, regularly use the estate as a toilet and not just for urinating.
It happened one night when he returned from a family party in a drunken stupor, brandishing a shotgun and threatening to kill his wife and child.
The spectacle that is the weekly toga party can only be described as complete drunken debauchery.
While a solo binger will tend to underestimate his natural limits, a pair or group of lost weekenders can encourage, threaten and cajole each other to dizzying new heights of drunken tomfoolery.
The four bouncers go for a night on the town, playing more than 20 different characters, from giggly girls to drunken slobs, set against the glitzy glamour of the nightclub scene.
Based on these comments in the pages of Britain's leading conservative magazine, I will no longer bother to worry about the enfeeblement of Britain, the collapse of its sense of moral order, its inability to control drunken yobs in the streets of London and other cities, or its unwillingness to stand up against immigrant groups who would like nothing better than to cut every unbelieving throat in a single night. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
Almost every night drunken youngsters are shouting abuse at their neighbours and vandalising property.
At the risk of merely confirming Stephen's description of the Brit boozer, I've been drunk or been with drunken people in most parts of Europe and on the whole it has been fun.
kept the drunken sailor in protective custody
He was cautioned for drunken driving.
Taxi drivers at the mercy of drunken passengers on late-night runs sometimes admit to keeping a large spanner under their seat.
Lucy is a modestly successful artist encumbered with a drunken, hypochondriac father and an uncaring American boyfriend.
Kathy is too angry and resentful to care and Josh has gradually come to grow indifferent toward his drunken distant father.
Jesse, suspended from his job as police chief of Paradise, is a drunken recluse, much to the disgust of his oddly unaffectionate dog. Tom Selleck, 'Jesse Stone' keep doing what they do best
It's not that I don't want one, it's just I never get the offer of anything other than a drunken fumble.
She began working as a nightclub hostess when she met and married a drunken dentist who committed suicide three years after her execution.
“How, or what do you mean?” said Nigel; “I will break your head, you drunken knave, if you palter with me any longer.” The Fortunes of Nigel
In Greek this sound happens to mean "not intoxicated"; hence, without more ado, the ancients declared that the amethyst was a preventive of, and a cure for, drunkenness. More Science From an Easy Chair
Then she stood and shoved her drunken father with all the strength she could manage.
There are also the typical DD telefilms featuring drunken husbands and harassed wives, or women collectors in district bungalows being leered at by local goons.
Just before midnight, the square filled up with drunken revellers.
A schoolgirl told how she froze with fear as she was allegedly molested by a drunken man in an early hours attack.
The goldfinches chittered and sang like drunken canaries and once in a thunderstorm a barred owl blundered into that fake crystal chandelier she had always detested.
The drunken driver ran his car into a tree.
The staggering on too-high heels, the silly hats, the little black dresses covered in tinsel and the semi-drunken jokes about handcuffs. It’s That Time Of Year Again « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
In fact, the audience is very much like one of her suitors, left to comfort each other drunkenly while she gallivants with someone new.
Which amanuensis is a drunken, bankrupt village grocer, of whom my son-in-law is one of the defrauded creditors – Mr. L — having intrusted him with about forty pounds 'worth of the plantation rice, to sell on commission for him, which rice, indeed, was sold, but was never accounted for, and as the man is a bankrupt, never will be. Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
I was sickened by stereotypes of Indigenous women as promiscuous, drunken whores or sexless Mother Earth types.
Peter has been brought before the court on a charge of drunken driving.
I, alone at a table, climbed outside a bottle of zinfandel and some joyful tagliolini gratinati (I don't eat a lot of pasta but my stomach needed it) and embarrassed myself yabbering drunkenly at strangers.
'A brawler, 'or, as Delitzsch renders it,' boisterous '-- look into a liquor-store if you want to verify that, or listen to a drunken party coming back from an excursion and making night hideous with their bellowings, or go to any police court on a Monday morning. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
Unfortunately it also has the most appalling collection of yahoos in English cricket and their drunken antics put Headingley's Test future in some jeopardy.
This time around the authors are not drunken magazine hacks back from a long lunch; they're all eminent scientists, boffins and inventors.
As well as vandalism, it will target drunken louts and unruly gangs who make neighbourhoods no-go areas.
Then imagine yourself surrounded by sizzling synths, drunken piano stomps, and lock-step pirate rhythms.
Drunken football fans rampaged through the streets.
Drunken hecklers were a different matter: the only way to handle them was to unleash a volley of abuse, humbling them with a few crushing put-downs.
The joint venture by law enforcement agencies is concentrated on unroadworthy vehicles, drunken driving and reckless and negligent driving in an attempt to stem the road carnage.
Her swollen lips and drunken expression peered back at her from his mirrored shades. The Maverick
Rather than leaning on his appealingly gruff Neil Diamond pipes to articulate personal stories of drunkenness and hardscrabble redemption, Bachmann takes a more imaginative approach here.
There are also men who killed in a crazed fit or drunken stupor. Times, Sunday Times
It is a strange factor of this kind of euphorically dull drunkenness ( 'Oh go on then, sod it, why not? Gridlock
Or does the tax from alcohol and the drunken behaviour keep too many people in jobs? The Sun
He sat on the wooden side walk with his drunken palpitations, like a paralyzed cowboy at a decorticate ranch. One Night Below Climax
They were paid little by the state and acquired a reputation for charging extortionate fees and for drunkenness.
Meanwhile, the drunken man on the other side of the room was struggling to break free of the flimsy curtain that separated us.
The sluttish,drunken and loutish way women behave in Britain was a shock to me when I first came here. [cry rape] sorting out the truth from the lies
Salinger concludes that this was likely because “magistrates did not place drunkenness high on their list of offenses warranting prosecution.” A Renegade History of the United States
I had to face the drunken tramps and the scorn of those wannabe policemen and women: the ticket inspectors.
First a drunken tramp got on and started bawling and shouting and generally upsetting people.
But if you've been put-off by holidaying in Cyprus by the tabloid tales of beer-swilling thugs, drunken teenagers and late night revelling, think again.
When I finally released the pressure, it ran up the wall, looking more like a drunken man after a nite of alcoholic excess.
Some come buzzing drunkenly off the ceiling, motor around loudly, and butt against the light.
Occasional crimes such as bad temper, drunken snogs with the wrong person, unreliability or sarcastic remarks can be placed in a context of general human failing.
Gabriel tugged and tugged at me until I was running alongside him; he was cackling like a drunken fool, and he grabbed both my hands and spun us around like tops.
Cville’s best location for picking up drunken underage UVA poontang is now history. Wild Wings Closed? at cvillenews.com
His drunken outbursts during the mayor's speech were inexcusable.
He spoke sincerely, but with a drunken slur, and I shuddered.
He added: 'This was a drunken prank that got out of hand. The Sun
a profane and drunken minstrel, called Allan-a-Dale Ivanhoe
There were fears of drunken brawls that could divert police from keeping the peace elsewhere. Times, Sunday Times
Drunken games of darts in the local were watched by taciturn natives seething with resentment about property prices.
A fall from grace does not take much: a drunken tumble, a night out with the wrong man, an inadvertent outburst, a struggle with dependency.
Yet, I'd never got more than the odd snog and a bit of a drunken grope, while everyone else was at it like rabbits.
Then later in that dark street, you stepped left as I stepped right, we stood for a moment and looked at each other, then we kissed - a first kiss - like electricity grounding out from your lips to my lips all the way through me, to my toes, a rush of warm chaos - everything stopped as it does for lovers - everything stopped and the world revolved around you and I and that wonderful kiss the drunken clatter of fellow athletes hooting, hollering in at least 6 languages Admit-it Diary Entry
I have never passed out in a drunken haze on the dance floor of a trendy New York club.
Peter has been brought before the court on a charge of drunken driving.
In a way, the characters are stereotypes: the naïf young bride; the unscrupulous farmer; the drunken station master; the whorish mother; the repressed pseudo-father.
Don't worry about getting shot by pirates as they never even got close to the ship with those weapons they use and their shitty aim -- reminds me of a drunken'juicer 'door gunner we picked up from the motor pool back in Nam Army Rumour Service
S. troop positions in the other. Surely there are better, less insinuating ways to cover up or apologize for a drunken photo than legally disowning your name.
Drunkenness at work was sufficient grounds for instant dismissal.
Then one of the drunken louts caught her foot and she tumbled forward, hitting her head on the hardwood chair.
His father was a drunken brute.
She did this acrobatic drunken tumble from the sofa, and somehow or other, even though she rolled and rolled, the dainty little champagne glass remained upright and her champagne remained unspilt. The best performance I've ever seen: Greta Scacchi
A drunken member of the audience climbed onto the stage and tried to embrace Becka. Exit the Actress
Many would probably prefer to be only a short walk from the office in the morning and a drunken stagger back from the bars at night.
He staggered drunkenly toward the door.
Samis are often stereotyped as the comical helpers of Santa Claus or, even more negatively, as drunken fools or jesters.
Plans are under way to revamp a children's play area which was vandalised by drunken youths over Christmas.
Other people might get that hedonism via a drunken night out (indeed, I've been known to do this on one or two occasions), watching a movie, sport, whatever.
‘Most of the festivals here are just drunken brawls for children,’ she laments.
Look at Arria worshipping the drunken clodpate of a husband who beats her; look at Cornelia treasuring as a jewel in her maternal heart the oaf her son; I have known a woman preach Jesuit's bark, and afterwards Dr. Berkeley's tar-water, as though to swallow them were a divine decree, and to refuse them no better than blasphemy. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne
But as the sailors went out to celebrate at Manchester nightspots last summer, several were attacked by drunken thugs when violence flared on the streets.
He was evicted from the pub for drunken and violent behaviour.
To the onlookers below, it seemed as if a second sun lurched drunkenly through the sky, from which blazing goddesses descended and ascended while thunderbolts flashed and pealed.
He had talked rapidly, almost like a drunken man, as his reeling brain battled with the rising shock of the malarial stroke. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
Peter has been brought before the court on a charge of drunken driving.
But she's on her teaching round and wasn't drinking, and I could only drink two stubbies by myself without feeling like a drunken loser.
With this knowledge in hand, I happily settled back on the bed as he drunkenly muttered his hypnotising mutters.
Police were called out when a group of drunken youths went on a midnight rampage.
He slurred the words, and to all intents and purposes appeared the drunken sot.
Through the drunken ruckus, dim lights, flicker of soju through shot glass, she saw him.
There was a twist in the corridor they were approaching, and a distant babble of voices lifted in cheery shouts, loud demands, drunken slurs.
You have coon hunts, gators snoozing in the middle of the town square (the townsfolk politely step around him so as not to disrupt his nap), and drunken brawls at town socials.
Catullus brings forth the frenzied, almost feral, aspects of Bacchus's followers driven mad with drunkenness and hedonism, whereas Ovid concentrates on the romantic or emotional experience of Bacchus and Ariadne's encounter.
The potboy at the corner, who is a privileged amateur, as possessing official knowledge of life and having to deal with drunken men occasionally, exchanges confidential communications with the policeman and has the appearance of an impregnable youth, unassailable by truncheons and unconfinable in station-houses. Bleak House
Alas: these archetypes we revere wouldn't last a day in a modern newspaper - they were profane, drunken, nihilistic fabulists more concerned with the cards in their hands than the truth on the page.
When he got around to telling about his drunken speech, Theresa saw her next opening.
That's the view of Stephen Higson, the father-of-two who was attacked in Bootham at the weekend by a gang of drunken youths.
Though it would please me to think marrying outside my ethnic group has afforded my spawn a clearer shot at intellectual greatness, any mad 'brainiac' DNA my children might possess more likely arrives via their crazy, drunken, Mensa-smart goyishe grandfather than from their closest Ashkenazi kin. Michele Somerville: Many Are 'Chosen People' -- And a Few Even Know What It Means
Drunken louts should be punished. The Sun
You may also see the hope and support of many a flourishing family untimely cut off by the sword of a drunken dueller, in vindication of something that he miscalls his honour. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
His throat and lungs filled with the pungent stifling smoke of powder, his nostrils with earth and dust, he frantically wheezed and sneezed, leaping about, falling drunkenly, leaping into the air again, staggering on his hind-legs, dabbing with his forepaws at his nose head-downward between his forelegs, and even rubbing his nose into the ground. CHAPTER XIX
Inspiration, -- _Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also_: and again -- _Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink_. Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew
Recorded incidents of violent crime, typified by drunken yobbery, have more than doubled.
Three shoppers were mown down this afternoon when a drunken driver lost control of his car.
He wrote: ‘The food is disgusting, the hotels over-priced and the pubs are full of drunken, bad-tempered men.’
After the night of drunken crime and pie-eyed vandalism that ravaged the country on St Patrick's day, plans are afoot to move the date of the festival for next year's celebration.
Nature pleaseth, and like a kind mother giveth us over unto satietie, if not unto wearisomnesse, unlesse we will peradventure say that the rule and bridle, which stayeth the drunkard before drunkennesse, the glutton before surfetting, and the letcher before the losing of his haire, be the enemies of our pleasures. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
As a result the two-storey centre section with its turned-up eaves has a drunken tilt.
Once there, he is confronted with a population of drunken louts. Times, Sunday Times
As soon as the rest of the company was assembled, he set meat and drink before them and, when they had well eaten and drunken and were merry and in cheerful case, he took up his discourse and recounted to them in these words the narrative of The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Now the one thing that will get you booted unceremoniously from any locale, except a gathering of the Aryan Brotherhood at a beerhall, is going on a drunken anti-Semitic tirade. John Galliano, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen -- poison and poetry
He was arrested and charged with drunken driving, malicious damage to property and reckless and negligent driving.
A drunken hooligan who smashed a glass into a motorist's face has been jailed for 18 months.
On the present occasion I was delighted to find that, although people all "liquored" freely, there was scarcely any drunkenness; at all events, they had their little bit of fun, such as we see at fairs at home. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
The philosophy behind this is that the best way to find fun is by stumbling ass-backwards into it, and what better way is there to stumble than drunkenly?
Bacon accepts no responsibility for your drunken actions if this is attempted!
On returning a drunken someone would make it back to the door, fling it open and stagger through it, forgetting to shut it at all.
Police were called out when a group of drunken youths went on a midnight rampage.
On the sidewalk Soapy began to yell drunken gibberish at the top of his harsh voice.
To confront that reality some sorry, drunken night on the shore of an Arizona lake might provoke any of 100 reactions.
Andy says that his effort ‘sounds good in a drunken slur.’
He hit her in a drunken rage.
Moreover, in "Szomorú Napok" will be found some of Jókai's most original characters, notably, the ludicrous, if infinitely mischievous, political crotcheteer, "Numa Pompilius;" the drunken cantor, Michael Kordé, whose grotesque adventure in the dog-kennel is a true _Fantasiestück à la The Day of Wrath
Try to ensure that yours doesn't kick off with a drunken fumble on the photocopier - it could be awkward when your children want to know how Mummy and Daddy met.

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