How to Use drunken in a Sentence

drunken

adjective
  • A drunken brawl broke out at the bar.
  • He lives in an apartment with his drunken mother.
  • He fell into a drunken stupor.
  • The streets were filled with drunken revelers on New Year's Eve.
  • There’s a drunken brawl on roller skates.
    — William Earl, Variety, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Feng has a drunken smile on his face the entire time.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 18 Sep. 2025
  • There are those drunken, manly ones who want to get it.
    — David Searcy, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • One story holds that he was killed in a drunken brawl with one of his guards.
    — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Those drunken words at the downtown parade seem like a long time ago.
    — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 6 May 2024
  • One is accused of killing her boyfriend after a drunken spat.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The getaway is fun, at first, until a drunken night goes awry.
    — Annabel Gutterman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Hugo thought Kyle’s bragging was just drunken chat.
    — Emma Soren, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The drunken man got into his car and moved it from the gas pump to a parking spot.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 22 Sep. 2022
  • They get wasted at a party and engage in a drunken brawl.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
  • There were lots of drunken dinner parties.
    — Christopher Tayler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • In the plane with me were the pilot and our drunken passenger.
    — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2025
  • Rocky staggers in his corner like a drunken man trying to get back up on a barstool.
    — Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The hard part is carrying around a half drunken flute of champagne.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Not all those who died were as a result of drunken driving crashes, but many were.
    — Madison Bateman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Some were inflicted on drunken patients who slipped on the ice.
    — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2025
  • Ari’s drunken adventure has led her to the docks, where Samu finds her.
    — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 22 June 2021
  • Jazz was 10 when his father was killed during a drunken brawl.
    — courier-journal.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Those of us with mental illness aren’t drunken drivers who refuse to give up our car keys.
    — WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
  • An old safe that once contained drunken sailors’ valuables sits in the back corner.
    — Derek Sandhaus, Saveur, 10 July 2025
  • Patrons — many just as panicked and some in a drunken stupor — ran by her.
    — Emiliano Tahui Gómez, Austin American Statesman, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Arizona is home to some of the nation's strictest laws on drunken driving.
    — Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Arizona is home to some of the nation's strictest laws on drunken driving.
    — Shelby Slade, AZCentral.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Besides, drunken Survivor footage is the best kind of footage.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • So the biggest problem is that there's just spending like drunken sailors.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • During one drunken brawl, he was beaten with a shovel, shot in the back and left for dead.
    — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 20 May 2022

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