drunk
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Haddad, in his 60s, said he and his daughter had drunk six litres of water between them in a single day.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
That is a sign of a healthy market, not one drunk on euphoria.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Another called it “bewilderingly nice” to hang with Scots, noting, “Even when they were drunk they were nice, not smarmy.”
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
Devon Savage from Boston Beer which owns the Samuel Adams Taproom said the Tartan Army had "drunk them dry".
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
Two rows in front, Squelch suddenly vommed a party-sized tube of Smarties he'd drunk to win a go on Ant Little's Space Invaders calculator.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Otto von Bismarck’s special providence for “fools, drunks, and the United States of America” may be coming to the aid of the current incumbent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
The pair met “a maddening, intriguing, colorful world of dictators and drunks, scoundrels and socialites, heroes and halfwits,” per Peter Moreira in “Hemingway on the China Front.”
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
"Both my daughters are young doctors and they tell me that hospital campuses are overrun by anti-social elements, drunks and touts," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024
The leader of a grass roots group supporting servicemen and women, Brigadier General pilot Dariusz Wronski, said soldiers were really outraged by the film, which he said showed them as drunks and thugs.
From Reuters ● Sep. 20, 2023
Big Bol was a bouncer at the Crow Club, perfectly suited to tossing out drunks and wasters, but too heavy on his feet to be much use when it came to a real tussle.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
The pool women involved themselves, displaying a remarkable capacity to seem drunker in a crisis, despite the fact that they weren’t drinking, as if drawing on unseen reserves.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
“The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. Bit louder, bit trashier, bit drunker, and more easily bought.”
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2018
Ravick had been in power too long, and he was drunker on it than Bish Ware ever got on Baldur honey-rum.
From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam
But in times such as these, an awards broadcast can serve some purpose beyond distraction — even a show whose claim to fame is catching celebrities at their drunkest and loosest.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2020
O villain! thy lips ate scarce wiped since thou drunkest last.
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes
