How to Use intoxicated in a Sentence

intoxicated

adjective
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  • He appeared to be very intoxicated.
  • Driving while intoxicated is illegal.
  • So there are two versions of the dance in the episode: the good one and the intoxicated one.
    — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Two-thirds of the time, the crashes are the result of intoxicated drivers.
    — Dallas News, 15 Oct. 2022
  • The first targets of this campaign are British males between the ages of 18 to 35—the subject of one of the video ads is an intoxicated young Brit.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Talk to the valet if someone is too intoxicated to drive.
    — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2022
  • While Yee-jae learns lessons about the value of human life, Tae-u becomes intoxicated by the idea of killing.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Three of his friends had been run over and killed in their tents by an intoxicated driver who swerved onto the sidewalk.
    — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 13 May 2023
  • The league said the discipline was in response to Morant’s live streaming of a video on March 4 in which he was seen holding a firearm in an intoxicated state.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The two men talked for about 30 minutes, Thorpe said, adding that Newkirk seemed intoxicated.
    — Jay Valle, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The other man had an out of county warrant for DUI and was too intoxicated to care for himself.
    — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024
  • When Biden, Sr., was a teen-ager, his mother, Mary, would send him to the local gin mill to retrieve his intoxicated father.
    — Adam Entous, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • She was found to be too intoxicated to care for herself in public.
    — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The woman was seated in the driver seat of her car and appeared intoxicated.
    — Brian Lisik, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The teen was on an idling jet ski on a Kentucky lake near her father's home when an intoxicated boater slammed into her at more than 60 mph.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
  • One male, who was visibly intoxicated, was yelling and spitting on the floor.
    — Zach Mentz, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Police had been called to the scene by a man who had complained that an intoxicated man was refusing to get out of a vehicle.
    — Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Eventually, due to his intoxicated state, the man fell asleep against the fence with the knife resting in his open hand, officials said.
    — Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Deputies said the woman confirmed the grandfather had given her money to take the child to the thrift store, and that the grandfather was highly intoxicated.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 7 May 2024
  • But the McCrossens woke the next morning and headed to Time Square to catch a glimpse of all the revelry, romance and intoxicated hope and optimism of the previous night.
    — Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The now intoxicated team has to fight through their impairments, overcome their personal issues, find the real bomb and save the world.
    — Breanna Bell, Variety, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Deputies were dispatched at 9:26 p.m. for reports of an intoxicated person with a weapon.
    — The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The intoxicated driver, a Burton man, 37, then fled on foot.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The woman next to them swapped seats to sit with her husband, and she was replaced by the passenger from hell — an intoxicated man who asked for a vodka on the rocks before the flight even took off, the suit says.
    — John Annese, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2023
  • The group subsequently went to the boyfriend’s house where the intoxicated woman and her boyfriend went to bed, prosecutors said.
    — Bay City News Service, The Mercury News, 22 July 2024
  • He was charged with driving while intoxicated and will be arraigned once a date is assigned, police said.
    — Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 29 June 2024
  • The intoxicated driver, who failed field sobriety tests, refused to take a breath test.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The dogs belonged to my friends, who screeched at them to stop, but the canines were already too intoxicated with instinct to register any commands.
    — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 11 May 2021
  • In Jacksonville, prosecutors have filed charges in cases from the backlog that involve women who were homeless, intoxicated or using drugs.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The singer, 43, agreed to plead guilty to a less serious offense than his original driving while intoxicated charge, the Associated Press reported.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024

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