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UK
/səbɹˈaɪəti/
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[ US /səˈbɹaɪəti/ ]
[ US /səˈbɹaɪəti/ ]
NOUN
- moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs
- the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol
- abstaining from excess
- a manner that is serious and solemn
How To Use sobriety In A Sentence
- The trouble with this sobriety lark, which I embarked upon at the start of the year, is that I find my critical facilities have been restored after some 30 years' suspension.
- As well as his new-found sobriety, this may be in part a reflection of a stability in his personal life. Times, Sunday Times
- The class discusses getting a sponsor, abstaining from romantic relationships for at least a year after sobriety and the importance of attending 90 meetings in 90 days.
- He's a teetotal, drug-free vegetarian, passionate about sobriety and the focus it has given his life and career.
- There is a fine line between maturity, sobriety and patience, and indifference, alienation and disgust.
- So far the Obama Administration, to our surprise and perhaps its own, has behaved with admirable sobriety despite the wailing from the political left. The Housing Bust Lobby
- Benji is said to be dry while Paris can knock back a keg and still pass a sobriety test. Hollywood Dame » Blog Archive » Paris Hilton and Benji Madden Split
- So it turns out that "fondling" is not part of the standard field sobriety test Radio station for blind to go off air, victim of budget cuts. Latest News - UPI.com
- As a patrician of Dordrecht and a patriot, he paid homage to Holland as a trim and handsome place where even the windmills rotated their sails with a Sunday sobriety; much as his contemporary Teniers depicted Flanders.
- As they have been realised, the dreams themselves have assumed a peculiar character of sobriety, of the spirit of positivism, and beyond that, of boredom.