Sentence examples for sober from inspiring English sources

He has introduced bonuses for workers who turn up sober and refrain from stealing, and the sack for those who do not.

The idea seems to be: don't insult Ukip but pull them back to the real world and sober them up to the Labour threat.

McGregor wasn't having any of it: he hired a room at a coffee house in Aston and ordered his players to attend a series of sober gatherings and musical recitals.

"Everyone else was drunk anyway" has become "Did I really do that?" As my sober clock ticked away I worried I would forget this reality and fall into the trap of "I wasn't that bad really".

This was a particularly sober episode for Jimmy; he even mocked Polk for coming in to work drunk – which seems a bit rich.

Many of we foreign reporters in the weeks before September 1973 had got into the habit of gathering in the snug downstairs bar of the Carrera hotel – across the square from Allende's sober and unadorned presidential palace, the Moneda – where many of us were staying.

Michael Fassbender stars as a sex addict whose sober demeanour is completely at odds with his chaotic sex life.

Anyoldways, so Natalie, doing her usual little-girl-lost-ooh-have-you-noticed-my-fluttering-nay-even-childlike-Bambi-eyes schtick, first turns up wearing quite a sober grey jacket and, for once, looks more than 12, which makes the upcoming all-too-graphic striptease relatively less cringe-tastic to watch.

The seemingly sober Dutchman succeeded to the top job at the start of last year, promising to slash spending and sell underperforming assets.

The 50-year-old's decision to participate in the video made some in the sober French finance world question his ability to run his business.

Yet Klitschko shifted tone in concluding his eight-minute address with a sober plea for peace in the dispute between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces in two eastern regions of Ukraine.