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How to use intoxicated in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective

Intoxicated means stupefied by alcohol, drunk. Example: “The shooting resulted from an altercation between two armed intoxicated men.”

Examples of intoxicated by meaning

adjectiveStupefied by alcohol, drunk.

  • The bar had two entrances, one on Barrow and another via Bedford, and “86” referred to the address of the door from which intoxicated or unruly guests would be ejected.2025 May 16, Edward Helmore, “What does ‘8647’ really mean? Not what Trump’s supporters are saying”, in The Guardian

More sentences with intoxicated

  • The shooting resulted from an altercation between two armed intoxicated men.From the entry altercation
  • Driving while intoxicated is against the law.From the entry while
  • The law proscribes driving a car while intoxicated.From the entry proscribe
  • Constand said she was too intoxicated to physically or verbally resist.2021 October 10, Graham Bowley, “For One Bill Cosby Juror, the Work Did Not End With the Trial”, in The New York Times. From the entry encounter
  • McKenna was found to be heavily intoxicated, and after caution he swore and replied: "I'm blocked."2019 January 4, “'Drunk' Co Tyrone teenager smashed car into solicitor's office in Dungannon”, in The Irish News. From the entry blocked
  • They are like an alcoholic that can't drink without becoming intoxicated.2013, Tom Ward, Paul Gustavson, Ed Foreman, The Power of Living by Design, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry negaholic
  • And intoxicated . . . pfui! . . . the disgusting pig!2008, Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry pfui
  • Poetism was intoxicated with life, with its sensuality and lyricism, and for the most part poetism ignored life's darker aspects.2006, Craig Cravens, Culture and Customs of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, page 155. From the entry poetism
  • I am not speaking of hodophiles, incurable travelers intoxicated by the sense of motion whose circuits are jammed with sensory overload.1991, Travel & Leisure, New York, N.Y.: American Express Publishing Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 240. From the entry hodophile
  • Seraphina!" The repeated beauty of the sound intoxicated me.1903, Joseph Conrad, Romance, Babylon Dreams, →ISBN, page 196. From the entry Seraphina
  • This was my first opportunity to meet FCK supporters, and I was intoxicated by their merch table before I even entered the stadium.2014, Tanya H. Keith, Passionate Soccer Love: A Memoir of 20 Years Supporting Us Soccer, →ISBN. From the entry fck
  • I am intoxicated by the smell of anise used for the pizzels and biscottis that are made every Thursday at the North End bakeries.1998 February 26, eyore, “NEW: FLY 9/17”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet). From the entry pizzel
  • Some individuals "can't hold their liquor" and become thoroughly intoxicated on small amounts of alcohol which would not faze most social drinkers.1990, “Assessment”, in Broadening the Base of Treatment for Alcohol Problems: Report of a Study by a Committee of the Institute of…. From the entry faze
  • But to keep up the show in front of her 75 guests, Lorraine needed to become intoxicated and thus not apparently responsible for her self-entitled show-off behavior.1995, John Oldham, Lois B. Morris, The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do, Random House, page…. From the entry self-entitled
  • Or, in sorrow, he might have started drinking one night, become intoxicated, vomited, aspirated the vomitus into his lungs, and developed a lung abcess or aspiration pneumonia.1991, Eric J Cassell, The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine, Oxford University Press, page 112. From the entry vomitus
  • Of her Mvskoke heritage, Harjo wrote a poem, “Indian School Night Song,” narrated from the perspective of an intoxicated woman reflecting on the condition of her school and its students.2016 September 18, “Acclaimed Poet Joy Harjo Describes Influence of Her Mvskoke Heritage”, in The Cornell Daily Sun. From the entry Mvskoke

Meaning of intoxicated

  1. adjective Stupefied by alcohol, drunk.
  2. adjective Stupefied by any chemical substance.

Full definition of intoxicated

Questions about intoxicated in a sentence

How do you use intoxicated in a sentence?
Intoxicated is used as an adjective. For example: “The shooting resulted from an altercation between two armed intoxicated men.”
What is a short sentence with intoxicated?
“Driving while intoxicated is against the law.”
What does intoxicated mean?
Intoxicated means stupefied by alcohol, drunk.

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