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

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

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

We are not a poorhouse, y' kneow—or a house for inebriates.

From Wayside Courtships by Garland, Hamlin

I believe, in general, novelty has something in it that inebriates the fancy, and not unfrequently dissipates and fumes away like other intoxication, and leaves the poor patient, as usual, with an aching heart.

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert