sober
adjective
not intoxicated or drunk.
will sober
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future tenseof sober.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“I hope that everything that was said today will sober up any potential aggressor,” said Putin.
From Reuters ● Mar. 1, 2018
In a year or two, Andrew, and marriage, and maybe motherhood, will sober and settle her.
From A Knight of the Nets by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
"Let him be married to a girl who will sober him."
From Shelley by Sydney Waterlow
If he fails, his failure will sober him, his friends argue: render him docile and tractable, obedient to parental commands for the future.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
My brethren, that recognition, that discovery in yourselves, when it comes to you, will sober you as it has sobered so many men before you: when it comes to you, that is, about yourselves.
From Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Alexander Whyte
