How to Use drunk driver in a Sentence

drunk driver

noun
  • On that night, his brother was run over by a drunk driver who fled the scene.
    — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
  • However, these dreams were short-lived due to a drunk driver.
    — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The person behind the wheel wasn’t a drunk driver or a texting teen.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Shah was in eighth grade when a neighbor was killed in a collision caused by a drunk driver.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Jack’s 18-year-old daughter, Nicole, was killed by a drunk driver.
    — Nikki Beach Club, Miami Herald, 27 June 2025
  • When Mukherjee was a teenager, her mother was killed by a drunk driver.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 9 May 2023
  • Not long after that, Alexander’s mother was killed by a drunk driver.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2025
  • What if the drunk driver could be offed before the fatal accident occurred?
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 30 July 2023
  • Years earlier, her son died in an accident where their car collided with a drunk driver.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The drunk driver managed a tavern and had served himself liberally while at work.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • This is becoming equally as dangerous as a drunk driver.
    — Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 14 May 2026
  • For unimpaired drivers, the seat belt is the best defense against a drunk driver, according to the release.
    — River Valley Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Just last year, eight Mexican migrant workers were killed when a drunk driver side-swiped their bus, which lacked seat belts.
    — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2025
  • By Dvorak’s logic, when people are killed or injured by a drunk driver, the car is the problem.
    — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • The ones about the vehicle was being driven by a drunk driver who took a leak in the parking lot before driving on the range.
    — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Another family member was run over by a drunk driver and left for dead with 30-some broken bones.
    — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Debra’s parents were killed by a drunk driver, she was told, while her baby pictures were supposedly lost in a house fire.
    — Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026
  • Living in Topanga at the time, Lacy was navigating a curve when a drunk driver hit him head-on.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Booher survived a deadly bus crash in 1998 that claimed the lives of dozens of people after a drunk driver hit the bus.
    — Paul Burton, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Duff Goldman is giving an update on his health after he was involved in a car crash allegedly caused by a drunk driver.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The most distressing incident occurred when a drunk driver had an accident on a local winding road at night.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Minutes later, an allegedly drunk driver struck the cart, flipping it and ejecting the newlyweds.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
  • In this case, it was alleged that Robert Brown, his wife, Meredith Snow, and their dog, were killed by a drunk driver.
    — Corey Brian Friedman, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2024
  • Mahan added that a person is killed by a drunk driver in the United States every 45 minutes.
    — Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Instead, in October 2022, Lim was killed by a drunk driver who struck their car head-on.
    — Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The teenage boy who died in a vehicle crash caused by a drunk driver this weekend has been identified as a 13-year-old middle schooler.
    — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 15 May 2023
  • Hanson was killed in a wrong-way crash caused by a drunk driver on Interstate 65 in February.
    — Vivian Richey, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The Health department has said the data is used to help reduce deaths from not wearing a seatbelt or deaths involving a drunk driver.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Bobby Dewbre had just finished celebrating with friends and was crossing the street to catch a sober ride home when he was struck and killed by a drunk driver.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Crowley was laid to rest 37 years after being paralyzed by a drunk driver who crashed into Crowley's squad car.
    — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2024

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