intoxicated

Example Sentences

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Now the law: The two sides agree the Founders had no problem barring intoxicated people from carrying guns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

“Infantino is intoxicated by the elite circles of power, status and wealth, into which he has been elevated,” Goldblatt said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2025

To actually feel intoxicated, a chimp would need to eat so much fruit that its stomach would become painfully distended.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025

Her guards "should check that anyone approaching her is not intoxicated or armed," he added.

From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025

They were all crying together; and, intoxicated by the noise, the unanimity, the sense of rhythmical atonement, they might, it seemed, have gone on for hours—almost indefinitely.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley