- present tense form of inebriate (3rd person singular).
inebriates
Example Sentences
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And as a pair, they can be as quick, acerbic and caustically funny as the inebriates in the classic English movie “Withnail and I,” which is saying a lot.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2015
Snug as a bug, the cup he waits That cheers but not inebriates, She offers him a truly ducal tea, Whipped up, she says, with no diffewclty.
From Time Magazine Archive
In China, to get natives to buy kerosene, Standard salesmen sold lamps for less than a song, for a cheep as inebriates of Singapore used to say.
From Time Magazine Archive
No intoxicating drink was to be got, and the cup that cheers but not inebriates has been Tommy's only stimulant.
From From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa by R. W. Allen
Unlike the Anacreontic in praise of the grape,—song suggestive chiefly of bacchanal revels and loose jollity,—the verse which extols "the cup that cheers, but not inebriates," brings to mind home comforts and a happy household.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various
