How to Use drunkard in a Sentence

drunkard

noun

• Her father was a drunkard.
• But along the way Franklin met a friend of his, a drunkard down on his luck.
  — Sam Kean, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
• For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 11 May 2018
• Sir Toby is sassy, a sybarite and a drunkard, but Steven Barkhimer was almost sober.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• Imagine a drunkard stumbling around a room and bouncing off the walls.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• There is an old joke about a drunkard searching for his keys under a streetlight.
  — Oliver Bullough, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
• Wars are waged by men, battles won and lost be male soldiers, barroom brawls fought by male drunkards.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 5 June 2017
• Kudos to those who refused to kowtow to the fears that drunkards might declare the tree to be their own private Everest.
  — al, 5 Feb. 2020
• If Hines sounds like a far cry from the slick-talking drunkard Toby Jones, that’s no accident.
  — Dan Hyman, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
• Sometimes sheer loss released him from the prison of himself, if only into grief: The death of his mother, and of his drunkard sons, touched him to the core.
  — Richard Brookhiser, WSJ, 28 July 2017
• Does this mean that the calculation for the drunkard’s walk doesn’t work on a rectangular grid?
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2016
• The Irish tell a story about a notorious drunkard and trickster named Jack.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2021
• But as the saying has it, God has a special providence for fools, drunkards and the United States of America.
  — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 31 May 2018
• The Duke is a louche drunkard, trying to drown out his family’s brutal legacy.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 May 2021
• But one bar in Kerala, India decided to enforce the drunkard's walk late last year.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 July 2018
• Their models animate like drunkards and have a habit of looking over Jon’s right shoulder at all times.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 6 June 2018
• Michael Patrick Gaffney makes a keenly comedic drunkard as Billy’s boss, who never stops talking about being a Yale man.
  — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017
• It is found on the roads, where drunkards lurch their uninsured trucks along lanes that exist only in their imagination.
  — Rob Beschizza, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2006
• The mansion is a masterclass in Korean modernism, made by a and filled with , with a manicured green lawn and hedges to keep the world—and its unwieldy drunkards—out.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2020
• The drunkard’s walk, at the level of atoms and molecules, has long been known to underlie Brownian motion and the diffusion of fluids.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2016
• The drunkard is sober enough to navigate a whole block before making a random choice at the next intersection.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2016
• Doing so may require more of the maze to be visited than a random drunkard's walk solution or the classic right-hand-to-the-wall solution.
  — Scientific American, 1 June 2015
• There is the workaholic, the drunkard, the shrew, all with some redeeming qualities, but only just enough to be sympathetic.
  — Heather Grevatt, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
• To be a cop stuck there alone after Labor Day, when only the fishermen and tradesmen and drunkards remain, is quite another.
  — Sean Flynn, Esquire, 9 Mar. 2017
• In several, his character died as a frustrated lover and a drunkard.
  — Ashok Sharma, USA TODAY, 7 July 2021
• The movie centers on a down-and-out family that lives in a dingy, underground apartment, frequented by stink bugs and a drunkard prone to public urination.
  — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 11 Oct. 2019
• Even Bible-toting, hatchet-wielding temperance icon Carry A. Nation focused not on reforming drunkards but on smashing saloons and disrupting the predacious traffic that went on there.
  — Mark Lawrence Schrad, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2017
• A terrible punishment awaits Katerina, but not before Shostakovich satirizes a dysfunctional Russian body politic that has fools as bureaucrats, drunkards as clergy and profiteers as police.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• En Banc Court: Perfectly rational; drunkards endanger public safety.
  — Eugene Volokh, Washington Post, 5 June 2017
• The Hilltop, ruled over by drunkard and chauvinist Gregory (Xander Berkeley), took nearly four months to create, its 18th century architecture brick exterior concealing an interior that is basically a shell, devoid of any walls.
  — Lisa Marie Pane, kansascity, 20 Oct. 2017

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