How to Use hungover in a Sentence

hungover

adjective
  • The story of the late Candy arriving late and hungover to Splash's set in order to shoot that scene has bounced around for some time.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Acute mountain sickness, the least severe of the bunch, might be something easy to write off as just feeling a bit sick, or even hungover.
    Allie Conti, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
  • If someone shows up to work hungover, for example, that’s bad.
    Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Kingsbury said Manziel clearly was hungover during the pregame walkthrough, drenched in sweat.
    Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Alex is going from horribly hungover to scared sober in a matter of five seconds.
    Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Belly got too drunk, called her mom for help, and poor worried Laurel arrived the next morning to find the house in shambles and her daughter a hungover wreck.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 13 Aug. 2023
  • If Curtis is like the drunk version of me, Isaac on Ghosts is like the hungover version of me, a little bit crankier, a little bit more frustrated and tired.
    Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
  • There are more chefs doing brunch now than ever because there is money to be made off the hordes of hungry and hungover weekend diners.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Ubuntu's App Center (or sometimes Snap Store), now showing you results at a rapid clip instead of a hungover crawl.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Part of the blame can be placed on the overall state of the real estate market that’s still hungover from historic pandemic sales and rising mortgage rates.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Your family deserves much better than to have a sleep-deprived, hungover dad.
    Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2018
  • The prosecution has claimed that Gutierrez-Reed was drinking and smoking marijuana in the evenings during the production, and may have been hungover at the time of the shooting.
    Variety, NBC News, 30 June 2023
  • In the restroom mirrors, framing your hungover reflection, were brand appropriations of taglines from some of Bravo’s biggest stars, themed around the pun of interpersonal drama as mess.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Southside Diner Championing all things fried and delicious, this iconic building has been nourishing hungover locals for over 40 years.
    Christie Fitzpatrick, Outside Online, 2 Feb. 2023
  • In his opening, Lewis did not raise another prosecution theory, that Gutierrez Reed was hungover or otherwise impaired on set.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Custodio said the prosecution's insinuation that Gutierrez-Reed was hungover might work in the defense's favor.
    Susan Montoya Bryan, ajc, 15 June 2023
  • Prosecutors, meanwhile, allege Gutierrez-Reed was negligent, repeatedly intoxicated and hungover during the shoot, failing at the most basic responsibilities of her important job.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2024

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