How to Use drunkard in a Sentence

drunkard

noun
  • Her father was a drunkard.
  • But along the way Franklin met a friend of his, a drunkard down on his luck.
    — Sam Kean, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
  • There is an old joke about a drunkard searching for his keys under a streetlight.
    — Oliver Bullough, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Imagine a drunkard stumbling around a room and bouncing off the walls.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
  • For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 11 May 2018
  • Wars are waged by men, battles won and lost be male soldiers, barroom brawls fought by male drunkards.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 5 June 2017
  • You would now be regarded on the same level as deadbeat drunkards and child molesters.
    — James Erwin, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Sir Toby is sassy, a sybarite and a drunkard, but Steven Barkhimer was almost sober.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 11 July 2019
  • Does this mean that the calculation for the drunkard’s walk doesn’t work on a rectangular grid?
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2016
  • It is found on the roads, where drunkards lurch their uninsured trucks along lanes that exist only in their imagination.
    — Rob Beschizza, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2006
  • Their models animate like drunkards and have a habit of looking over Jon’s right shoulder at all times.
    — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 6 June 2018
  • The Duke is a louche drunkard, trying to drown out his family’s brutal legacy.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 May 2021
  • In several, his character died as a frustrated lover and a drunkard.
    — Ashok Sharma, USA TODAY, 7 July 2021
  • Ben and Anne are written out of the will for being a drunkard and a woman, respectively.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Kudos to those who refused to kowtow to the fears that drunkards might declare the tree to be their own private Everest.
    — al, 5 Feb. 2020
  • But one bar in Kerala, India decided to enforce the drunkard's walk late last year.
    — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 July 2018
  • The drunkard is sober enough to navigate a whole block before making a random choice at the next intersection.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2016
  • The Irish tell a story about a notorious drunkard and trickster named Jack.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2021
  • If Hines sounds like a far cry from the slick-talking drunkard Toby Jones, that’s no accident.
    — Dan Hyman, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
  • So your daughters have decided to side with their drunkard of a father and are trying to blackmail you into submission.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2024
  • All three laws involved habitual drunkards.
    — Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 25 June 2026
  • There is the workaholic, the drunkard, the shrew, all with some redeeming qualities, but only just enough to be sympathetic.
    — Heather Grevatt, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
  • Doing so may require more of the maze to be visited than a random drunkard's walk solution or the classic right-hand-to-the-wall solution.
    — Scientific American, 1 June 2015
  • The movie centers on a down-and-out family that lives in a dingy, underground apartment, frequented by stink bugs and a drunkard prone to public urination.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Michael Patrick Gaffney makes a keenly comedic drunkard as Billy’s boss, who never stops talking about being a Yale man.
    — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017
  • The drunkard’s walk, at the level of atoms and molecules, has long been known to underlie Brownian motion and the diffusion of fluids.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2016
  • To be a cop stuck there alone after Labor Day, when only the fishermen and tradesmen and drunkards remain, is quite another.
    — Sean Flynn, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Harris maintained that, like habitual drunkards, unlawful drug users may have their gun rights temporarily taken away.
    — Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 2 Mar. 2026
  • But as the saying has it, God has a special providence for fools, drunkards and the United States of America.
    — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 31 May 2018
  • These laws also applied to habitual drunkards, the mentally ill and others determined to be dangerous to the public.
    — Morgan Marietta, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026

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