sober
adjective
not intoxicated or drunk.
Example Sentences
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Mull’s art is impressively varied and original and grows more powerful in the years after he sobered up and confronted some of the demons of his difficult childhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
“The realities of contemporary pricing sobered us up very quickly. We abandoned the idea.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
She sobered a little when she glanced down at the body again.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
