It was six of us at the table, and Rosy had eat and drunk a lot all evening.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
She had drunk a quantity of champagne, and during the course of her song she had decided, ineptly, that everything was very, very sad—she was not only singing, she was weeping too.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
He was drunk all right.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
He was very short with a brown face and quite drunk and he said after all it has happened before like that.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The second matador slipped and the bull caught him through the belly and he hung on to the horn with one hand and held the other tight against the place, and the bull rammed him wham against the wall and the horn came out, and he lay in the sand, and then got up like crazy drunk and tried to slug the men carrying him away and yelled for his sword but he fainted.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
. I came into her room half an hour before the bridal dinner, and found her lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress—and as drunk as a monkey.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when Jordan Baker came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps, leaning a little backward and looking with contemptuous interest down into the garden.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The whole battery was drunk going along the road in the dark.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, “I’m drunk, I tell you, mon vieux.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon; so everything that happened has a dim, hazy cast over it, although until after eight o’clock the apartment was full of cheerful sun.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
He was employed in a vague personal capacity—while he remained with Cody he was in turn steward, mate, skipper, secretary, and even jailor, for Dan Cody sober knew what lavish doings Dan Cody drunk might soon be about, and he provided for such contingencies by reposing more and more trust in Gatsby.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles, was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Snell was there three days before he went to the penitentiary, so drunk out on the gravel drive that Mrs. Ulysses Swett’s automobile ran over his right hand.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Everybody was drunk.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— past participle of DRINK
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Macmillan
— unable to control your actions or behaviour because you have drunk too much alcohol
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Other Word Forms
drank
drink
drinking
drinks
Usage
6 uses of ‘drunk’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
9 uses of ‘drunk’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald