tipsy

Example Sentences

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This is a comic epic of bursting balloons and black eyes, tipsy aunts and tottering uncles, an errant mouse and driving snows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

It’s as if he’s saying to us and all the tipsy ladies in the audience: Check this out — LOL, right?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

The veteran wine taster managed to avoid feeling tipsy by only drinking small sips or sometimes not swallowing the wine at all.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2024

"This is not parody. This is the actual ghost of Kathy Griffin's boxed wine loving mother saying I'm gonna get tipsy & throw my bingo cards at you! NOT A PARODY."

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2022

Some days, when she walked, she would feel tipsy, swaying side to side, needing to rest against walls as if struck by vertigo.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers