Sentence examples for state of drunkenness from inspiring English sources

This was in the days when I could get on stage in any state of drunkenness and still give a good account of myself.

Taking little amounts results in feeling really light and happy, like a very sweet state of drunkenness.

To this day, no one knows exactly what killed the horror writer, but one popular theory for his 1849 death in Baltimore was that he was the victim of "cooping"—in other words, he was kidnapped by a band of thuggish partisans on Election Day, kept in a state of drunkenness, and forced to change his clothes so he could vote over and over again.

These can cause further dehydration; keep in mind that drinks don't change the state of drunkenness, only the passing of time will sober up the drunk person.

States of drunkenness are probably more fun when expressed in art than when experienced in real life.

My bed pulled me like puppet strings, and, once there, I submerged myself into a dream-state of drunkenness — not quite asleep, but awake enough to numb myself with thoughts of anything else.

And then I remember collapsing back at my flat in a state of exhaustion, drunkenness, guilt and confusion.

When arrested for common assault outside a nightclub in Norwich at 5am, last June, "DJ" Dane Bowers informed police that he was "eight out of 10 drunk" with "10 being a state of total drunkenness".

The fate of many a slave has depended upon the turn of a single card; and many a child has been snatched from the arms of its mother, by bargains arranged in a state of brutal drunkenness.

Mr. Bruno's declaration virtually assures that New York will become the 32nd state to lower the threshold for the legal definition of drunkenness to 0.08percentt of alcohol in the bloodstream, from 0.10percentt.

Having travelled to and from Blackpool about thirty times, he's shot the town's stags and hens in various states of undress and drunkenness; revelling in bars, puking in the street, refuelling at chip shops.