Example Sentences
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By the time Prohibition was repealed in 1933, America was left not sobered, but hungover by its own contradictions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
“Participants were almost uniformly sobered by the paucity of effective constraints on abuse of power.”
From Salon • Nov. 18, 2024
But Osadchyi and other Ukrainian researchers have been sobered by what they’ve found so far.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 3, 2024
"But it's sobered a bit in the last five or so years and crossed genders so it's not so masculine."
From BBC • May 28, 2023
I kept hushing them, and they finally sobered up when I reminded them we were not libre yet.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
