Sentence examples for inebriate from inspiring English sources
'inebriate' is correct and usable in written English
It is an adjective which can be used to describe someone who is intoxicated by alcohol or other drugs. Example sentence: After a night of heavy drinking, the inebriate stumbled home.
verb
To cause to be drunk; to intoxicate.
But most experts would agree that the answer is not to leave your credit card behind the bar, persuade the pub landlord to stay open till dawn and leave the inebriate to get on with it.
MacGowan, troubadour, inebriate and raconteur, and once the lead singer, songwriter and primary face of bands variously known as The Nipple Erectors, The Nips, Chainsaw, Pogue Mahone, The Pogues and The Popes, is mostly 46 years old.
They said he was a Romanist, and been a slaveholder, was an inebriate, had swindled the government, that he was weak, that he was a duellist and a bully.
An inebriate possessed a weak character and was widely condemned.
It was one of several troughs within a few blocks of one another where seemingly anyone with rudimentary door-talking skills could freely nourish and inebriate himself.
But he did scruple to note that not all historians accepted this account of inebriate vandalism.
"The great drinkings of foreign countries compared to ours are but sippings," wrote one 17th-century pamphleteer).But it also spreads cheerGrowing prosperity and urbanisation were likelier causes of both drunkenness and its critics, because they brought rowdy commoners into greater proximity with gentler inebriates.
Over the past 20 years, they have undergone a startling transformation, moving from chaotic and frequently unsanitary events comprising two or three stages and hordes of inebriates making merry in a field of crushed paper cups to expertly policed, conspicuously middle-class affairs awash with cash machines, phone-charging booths and organic food and with all the rebellious spirit of the Proms.
Although a lot of citizens in places like Breaux Bridge would have been hard put a few years ago to find anything good to say about a lot of mindless young people roaming the streets carrying beer cans, they now realize that beer is less inebriating than wine and that a gutter full of beer cans is not nearly as dangerous as a gutter full of broken glass.
These were moments of inebriating triumph for Snakeskin, but they were colored always by anguish.
I watched the debate in Nairobi, at a roadside barbecue restaurant called Njuguna's, which handles a crowd of after-work professionals and all-day inebriates.
