Example Sentences

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The story is pure dialogue between the star, Baby, and director, Toner: They’ve forgotten much of the plot and tipsily put it together.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

A disco ball ambitiously sparkled for nobody but two mullet-sporting ladies tipsily writhing by a bistro table.

From Salon • Oct. 20, 2023

The future senator shared a single room with his parents, his sister, Darline, and the occasional patron, often coated in mill dust, who would wander in tipsily to watch TV with the family.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2021

At one point Ecbert’s son, Aethelwulf, tipsily greets Ragnar and the viking King dismisses him with a brusque “I don’t like you.”

From Forbes • Mar. 13, 2015

“Hech, Patey M’Brair, is this you?” said he, a trifle tipsily.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis