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

Yes, Jacklyn’s all smiles and compliments until a tipsy Laurie retires, giving the others some one-on-one time.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2025

"She was furious. She saw this upper-class woman wearing a fur coat getting tipsy with her husband. So she threw me out."

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2023

We stepped aside, amazed, as she bowed graciously from side to side like a tipsy fat lady in a circus parade, the dipper like a gravy spoon in her enormous hand.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison