How to Use intoxicated in a Sentence

intoxicated

adjective
  • He appeared to be very intoxicated.
  • Driving while intoxicated is illegal.
  • Rogers said the couple had a few drinks, but were not intoxicated.
    — Author: Kyle Swenson, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2019
  • She was found to be too intoxicated to care for herself in public.
    — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The amnesty covers both the intoxicated student and the one who seeks the help.
    — Susan Snyder, Philly.com, 2 May 2018
  • State law requires police to turn over an intoxicated person to a sober adult or take them to detox.
    — oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2020
  • Two months into the job, Izrailov picked up two intoxicated men.
    — USA Today, 31 Oct. 2019
  • He was found to be too intoxicated to care for himself and was arrested.
    — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Three of his friends had been run over and killed in their tents by an intoxicated driver who swerved onto the sidewalk.
    — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 13 May 2023
  • The man, who acted intoxicated, slurred that he was headed home from leaving a friend's house.
    — John Benson, cleveland.com, 3 May 2018
  • Whyte’s charge of driving while intoxicated was dropped.
    — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Two-thirds of the time, the crashes are the result of intoxicated drivers.
    — Dallas News, 15 Oct. 2022
  • The intoxicated brain may lie to a person, but smartphone gait data won’t.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 7 Sep. 2020
  • One male, who was visibly intoxicated, was yelling and spitting on the floor.
    — Zach Mentz, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The woman was seated in the driver seat of her car and appeared intoxicated.
    — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The driver told officers that one of the men appeared to be very intoxicated.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2019
  • When Ethan was a baby, he was found floating in a pool next to a drunk and intoxicated Nicky.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 June 2025
  • The clerk said the man, who was possibly in his 60s, seemed intoxicated.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2020
  • The man was extremely intoxicated, though, and could not say where the attack happened.
    — Christine Dempsey, courant.com, 4 June 2018
  • With the inevitable risk that comes with ax throwing, visitors who are intoxicated will not be allowed in or will be asked to leave.
    — Catie Wegman, sun-sentinel.com, 15 July 2019
  • The intoxicated rocker was wearing his then-girlfriend’s green evening dress.
    — Gabriella Ybarra, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Police had been called to the scene by a man who had complained that an intoxicated man was refusing to get out of a vehicle.
    — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Spakes, the officer, found an intoxicated Ethan Couch with a girl.
    — Fox News, 14 Feb. 2020
  • The complaint said that after the party, at least two people were too intoxicated to drive home and that two others were ordered to take them.
    — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 25 Feb. 2020
  • While Yee-jae learns lessons about the value of human life, Tae-u becomes intoxicated by the idea of killing.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Eventually, due to his intoxicated state, the man fell asleep against the fence with the knife resting in his open hand, officials said.
    — Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Sep. 2021
  • An intoxicated woman was found in his hotel room in Seattle ahead of Game 4.
    — Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 25 June 2026
  • The subject Gabriel Lopes was stopped and found to be driving while intoxicated and in possession of a weapon.
    — Houston Chronicle, 21 May 2018
  • An intoxicated Virgil started looking for his cabin room and got lost.
    — Miami Herald, 13 Dec. 2025
  • The teen was on an idling jet ski on a Kentucky lake near her father's home when an intoxicated boater slammed into her at more than 60 mph.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'intoxicated.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: