How to Use tipsy in a Sentence

tipsy

adjective
  • I got a little tipsy at the party last night.
  • Faux pas may be best avoided by staying on just the right side of tipsy.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 June 2018
  • Maybe large enough to knock some really tipsy items off the shelves.
    — Jesse Paul, The Denver Post, 22 Apr. 2017
  • Out of somewhere, a waltz emerged, a little tipsy on its feet.
    — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 19 May 2017
  • The space no longer conjures up images of neon beer signs and tipsy games of ping pong.
    — Hunter Boyce, ajc, 27 July 2022
  • There’s an early show and a late show, or one show with me sober and one show with me more tipsy.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Other times, your tipsy little craft defies the odds and makes it through the rapids.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Some in the room were tipsy enough not to care, including one of the presenters.
    — Ben Widdicombe, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The floor began to fill around midnight, and people danced in tipsy circles.
    — Sofiya Ballin, Philly.com, 22 June 2017
  • When Raj later emerges—tipsy, of course—Anu wants to know what is going on.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 8 Nov. 2018
  • The film eventually falls off the track, perhaps a bit tipsy.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The time a robber walked in the door and announced a holdup, got met with tipsy laughter, and sulked away with nothing.
    — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2018
  • The classic shape looks a little tipsy though, and the statement comes in form of the slanted angle.
    — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
  • Players are invited to a tea party at a tipsy table for a unique take on a stacking game.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The place feels a lot like a happy, tipsy, rainbow-America tourist trap.
    — Brock Colyar, Curbed, 20 June 2024
  • Singing cowboy Gene Autry, a little tipsy, falling off his horse, for one.
    — From Express-News Archives, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Social media users, meanwhile, could not get enough of the two getting tipsy on-air and giggling through the night.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The divers from the Ocean X team scout these regions for wrecks that could hold an antique, but tipsy cargo.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2019
  • But Computer Space proved too complex for tipsy patrons to get the hang of in a noisy bar.
    — PCMAG, 27 June 2022
  • Then Margaret asks Elizabeth to come over and get a little bit tipsy.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Before getting into the story, a tipsy Taka enters with a full beer.
    — Mariah Smith, The Cut, 29 May 2018
  • His hilarious tipsy confrontation with the witch is the highlight of the play.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2021
  • From the jump, the show is famously less tipsy than its boozy award show sibling the Golden Globes.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Read on to learn why experts say drinking on a plane can spark symptoms beyond feeling tipsy, and make the comedown that much worse.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 30 Dec. 2025
  • By noon, the sandy white beaches would be packed with sunbathers, gaggles of tipsy spring breakers, and children playing.
    — Paris Martineau, Wired, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Short, episodic pieces and tipsy letters to friends that were not always posted—a few are still folded up and tucked in among my many notebooks.
    — The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • The tipsy treats on this list combine chocolate, cake or ice cream with liquors such as whiskey, rum and vodka for the ultimate drunken desserts.
    — Danny Sanchez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 June 2017
  • Hervé stood at the front of the room, smiling, watching the tipsy crowd work through the buffet line and find seats at wooden banquet tables.
    — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Rather than just getting your food tipsy, think of alcohol as a flavor enhancer, similar to the role salt plays in a recipe.
    — Noelle Carter, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Others, like a group of tipsy Swedes wearing horned helmets, were stealing away some of the demand for pictures.
    — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 25 June 2018

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