drunkenly

Example Sentences

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Illustrating that judgment is a parade of filthy, thoughtless laborers drunkenly celebrating a completed job on a distant planet.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2025

The Auckland native plays Jessie, a charming, self-centered, late-20s New Zealand slacker living in London who drunkenly hooks up with and is then courted by international movie star Tom Kapoor.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2022

If the Salvation Army had a pop-up exhibition inside the Museum of Modern Art, it might look something like these auctions: eclectic and drunkenly curated, with a sensibility that toggles un-self-consciously between highbrow and low.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

A squirrel in Minnesota has enjoyed an early and especially festive start to the holiday season by being videoed apparently drunkenly feasting on pears that had fermented and become alcoholic.

From The Guardian • Nov. 25, 2020

The television was on but the volume was off so that the dancing people looked as if they were swaying drunkenly.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie