Example sentences for: drunks

How can you use “drunks” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Only in the 1980s, thanks to campaigns by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, did Americans come to recognize the vast toll of drunks on the road.

  • At a press conference, someone asked the ConEd guy if the swirly new Op Art underfoot might not dangerously addle drunks stumbling through the gutters of Times Square--a splendid old-fashioned kind of Hildy Johnson question, I thought.

  • But the bloodshed by speeders doesn't evoke the same emotional revulsion as the bloodshed by drunks.

  • The people--peddlers, drunks, sandwich men--are observed not just as formal objects, although they are affected by shadows and textures and sign-fragments, and not just as social types, as in Hine's pictures, but also as complex, weathered personalities.

  • The conservative tabloid Daily Mail said that "last week's pictures of embattled Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin clinging to one another like drunks trying to stay upright do not exactly lend weight to the think tank's call for an elected monarchy."


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