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Example sentences for "drunkenly"

Lexicographically close words:
drunk; drunkard; drunkards; drunke; drunken; drunkenness; drunker; drunks; drupaceous; drupe
  1. Near a saloon a laughing crowd watched the antics of a powerful fellow who drunkenly wallowed in the mud.

  2. He dove abruptly at the tent flap, disappearing like a palmed coin, while our canvas structure reeled drunkenly at his impact.

  3. The rat squealed its life away while the owl lofted silently to a tree branch where it stood on one leg, swaying drunkenly and staring with huge yellow eyes.

  4. I was so afraid you'd--" Her face went limp and she stood swaying drunkenly as the needle in the ring popped her skin.

  5. Through the rotted plank shutters, that hung drunkenly awry from rust-eaten hinges, long spears of sunlight wanly illuminated the wreck of all that had once been the lavish home of a billionaire.

  6. One of the huge newel-posts at the bottom lay on the cracked floor of marble squares; the other, its metal chandelier still clinging to it, lolled drunkenly askew.

  7. A bat staggered drunkenly about the tower, then reeled away into the gloom; and, high aloft, an owl uttered its melancholy plaint.

  8. Between narrowed lids, as though calculating a grave problem, he observed the crazed birds taking sudden flight, launching into air and whirling drunkenly hither and yon with harsh cries for their last brief bit of life.

  9. He put his arms around her and pulled her drunkenly to him.

  10. A moment later they were back on the floor, holding each other tight, drunkenly swaying.

  11. Lights wavered drunkenly behind the window-panes of the all-night saloons and dance halls.

  12. It was still too early for the cabarets and gambling places to be open, and even the saloon bars were somnolent save for the flies buzzing about them or drunkenly crawling in the spilled beer.

  13. Swaying drunkenly from side to side, then tossing up and down, turning in unison with those fiercely whirling clouds, the aeromotor seemed at the point of wreck and ruin.

  14. Arangbar glared down drunkenly from his throne.

  15. As they ran to his side he drew his sword and waved it drunkenly at the emissary, whose face had gone white.

  16. Arangbar clapped drunkenly and the guests began to settle themselves around the bolsters that had been strewn about the carpet.

  17. He sits contemplating them as he once sat drunkenly watching the obscenities of black, white, and yellow bodied women.

  18. Yes, there was something in the café that night--two men hurling themselves drunkenly against the taunting emptiness of life.

  19. The second eye was so infected that the boy was staggering drunkenly in an extreme delirium.

  20. The two young men would be missed, but those who went a wandering so drunkenly into the wilds of the land as if to a fool's paradise would be said by many to deserve the sorry fate they had so evidently brought upon themselves.

  21. He swayed drunkenly in his saddle and gasped in his effort to breathe as a hooked fish gasps, out of water.

  22. Bear Cat and the trailing voices, that had been drunkenly essaying close harmony, broke off mid-verse.

  23. Beckoning peremptorily to Blackwell, he started at a deliberate pace toward the door, but before he reached it, the staggering figure of the quarrelsome unknown overtook him and lurched drunkenly against him.

  24. Bear Cat stumbled across the threshold unaided, but as he halted, blinking at the light, he reeled drunkenly and propped his disheveled body against the wall.

  25. Since that evening when the eight men from the line had rolled drunkenly over the sandhills to the Kerrs' house, a fear had weighed on the chapel-goers of Llanyglo.

  26. In the teleview screen the frantic McKegnie would see the octopi submarine rush erratically by with a flash of its violet heat ray; the location chart showed the red spot zigzagging drunkenly around the green one.

  27. He extended his arms straight before him, the revolver slipped from his grasp, and then like a dying top he pivoted once drunkenly and collapsed upon the turf.

  28. And he staggered drunkenly forward, banking all upon the credulity and thirst of the soldier who confronted him with fixed bayonet.

  29. Clutching the railing with one hand, she wagged drunkenly from side to side.

  30. He wabbled drunkenly across the floor, but all at once his figure stiffened and a blank look came into his face.

  31. The flying boat heeled over drunkenly to that side, shivered and shook from stem to stern, and then tried to drop by the nose and plunge madly seaward.

  32. With a sudden phlop the rifle grenade goes drunkenly up into the mist; with a grunt of joy the Lewis gun and its warrior discharge a magazine at the dim-seen figures.

  33. Plainly visible, it reached its highest point, and still wobbling drunkenly went swishing down on to G.

  34. He brushed her aside, and rolled drunkenly into a wine shop.

  35. He turned drunkenly towards Nickie, and beheld what must have been a strange and mysterious sight to a commonplace Dutchman in his own home.

  36. For a moment he stood at the door, bracing himself with legs spread wide apart, and stared wildly about--then he reeled drunkenly across the room and fell into a chair, sprawling at full length.

  37. The doctor sagged drunkenly in the saddle, and his head first swung far back, and then snapped over so that the chin banged against his chest.

  38. He had come to the edge of the rock and stood leering drunkenly down on her.

  39. He slowly arose and shambled along half drunkenly to see what it all meant.

  40. It lay drunkenly over on one side, resting on its twisted landing gear and a crumpled lower wing section.

  41. One of the posts was broken and the rotting structure leaned drunkenly against a lilac bush.

  42. The Universe spun and whirled in mad gyrations about him as he reeled drunkenly to his feet, staggering and sprawling.

  43. He stared drunkenly at a beautiful girl who could not have been more than seventeen.

  44. A man with a sword dangling at his side staggered to his feet drunkenly and clawed at the girl, but she shoved him back into his seat and kept walking.

  45. Some were already snoring drunkenly on the grass, while others had staggered into the ruins.

  46. But now only the long hall-like structure rose against the sky, and its walls leaned drunkenly among the crawling vines.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drunkenly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.