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Example sentences for "drunks"

Lexicographically close words:
drunke; drunken; drunkenly; drunkenness; drunker; drupaceous; drupe; drupes; drus; drusy
  1. I'd rather not have no guests than drunks that come in stagger blind and shoot the plaster off of the wall.

  2. The tanks were nearly empty now, except for the drunks and vags that the constables brought in and the grist for the next grand jury.

  3. He proved that one night when we picked up a quartet of drunks at a dive on the south end of our district.

  4. The drunks joked with me at first, insisting that Burke and I have a drink or two with them.

  5. I reported over the two-way radio that a gun had been fired accidentally, in case somebody phoned in about it, also explained that the drunks had disappeared when we got to the scene of the complaint.

  6. That's why they can afford to go off on drunks and holler around and smash things up.

  7. No drunks was to be allowed on the floor and none of them disgraceful dances.

  8. Just why, I'm not quite sure, but I believe it has something to do with their all being finally picked up by one destroyer and carried back to harbour like a lot of drunks after a night's spree.

  9. I have no hard feelings against drunks but they are useless and worse in a street meeting.

  10. The chosen corner is usually where the down-and-outs and drunks congregate and is hemmed about by cheap noisy saloons.

  11. He hated violent arrests and all that sort of thing, and had a faculty of persuading drunks and disorderlies and other fractious persons to "go quietly along wid him," that was little short of marvellous.

  12. The local lock-up has a record of eighteen drunks run in in seven minutes.

  13. After that, duty at Ninemile was child's play, and he never ran in fewer than two drunks at a time; it was beneath his dignity to be seen capturing a solitary inebriate.

  14. Obstinate drunks who had done nothing but lie on the ground and kick their feet in the air, would get up like birds, serpent-charmed, to go with him to durance vile.

  15. He will go to the police courts to put in a good word for the "drunks and disorderlies" or pay their fines, if a good word is not effective.

  16. Your father is a man who has devoted his life to drunks and outcasts, and he looks on temperance legislation as a refuge for them.

  17. There was no use trying to carry on a successful business and at the same time coddle a lot of drunks and unfits like Billy.

  18. He had a joint down on South Ervay, and he was always calling the police to pick up drunks and one thing and another.

  19. As the shortage of labor became severe, the plantation owners began to import criminals and were willing to accept the poor and the drunks who had been seized from the streets of European ports.

  20. When two drunks in a car refused to stop at a Guard roadblock and ran into a line of soldiers, the Guard interpreted it as a deliberate and malicious suicide attack.

  21. With a ferocious grin, intended for an ingratiating smile of welcome, Many Drunks advanced upon George, with outstretched hand.

  22. Many Drunks now realizing that he was merely the victim of a joke, scowled in turn upon Yorke.

  23. The stories of the drunks had made Lemuel a little anxious; but he thought that attendant would keep a sharp lookout, so that there would not really be much danger.

  24. Colonels,” said the clerk, “you drunks comes.

  25. As Peter walked into the bar one or two drunks straightened themselves and took off their hats with drunken sentiment.

  26. In ways, the accidental drunks were the best.

  27. Now the politicians were too wise to leave the town filled with drunks from the water-front of Oakland.

  28. These were disposed of first in the way of routine business, together with a few drunks and disorderlies.

  29. I had to wait an hour before I could speak to him, while he ground out a string of drunks and assaults, shooting out his sentences like a rapid-fire battery.

  30. One of the drunks spelt out the name: Terence Mulcahy.

  31. They tell the story, he said, that two drunks came out here one foggy evening to look for the grave of a friend of theirs.

  32. Edgar having to attend the Monday police court, which was always fat with drunks and wife-beaters, Henry was left to make his way to the Guardian office himself.

  33. Drunks generally make use of all the aids to navigation when they board a ship.

  34. What was harder to ignore was the barkeep straddling the bar and coming down flatfooted in the wake of two reeling drunks who were lunging for the killer with a crazy, wild look in their eyes.

  35. Some of it anyway, splitting it down the middle, causing the drunks who were divided in their minds about what he had done to change sides abruptly.

  36. We had to move fast and we ran into trouble when two struggling drunks got in our way.

  37. All fights and drunks must be put off till she's gone.

  38. The game had stopped right there; and it was so quiet in the room you'd a-thought the snoring of the two drunks asleep on benches in one corner was a thunder-storm coming down the cañon!

  39. If you were a white man you could have as many drunks repealed as you wanted.

  40. It seemed as if he were making up for all the time he had lost while he was respectable, and condensing into one all the drunks he might have taken and had n't.

  41. It was the drunks that gave us trouble, when we tried to march them in the ranks.

  42. It was my hard luck to be corporal of the guard bringing up the rear of the column with a few prisoners and some drunks who had been unable to resist the temptation of a final debauch.


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