sober

How To Use sober In A Sentence

• It was of a suitable Ash Wednesday character and left the congregation feeling sober and a little cast down.
• 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
• On his way out, he met Baldwin dressed soberly in a black frock coat and pantaloons.
• Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
• Everyone became equally loud, crude and garrulous, the technically sober behaving identically to the genuinely drunk.
• The paintings are some of the artist's most sober works, but there is a lightness of being at their core, as well.
• To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolute sober. 
• The major difference is that in Shakespeare the symbolic opposition between the world of sober morality and that of holiday freedom is normally made internal to the play.
• A sober brick building, unpretentious in scale and design, lies modestly low among lawns at the end of a road with playing fields on either side.
• My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.". G.K. Chesterton