Use sober in a sentence
Sentences ending with sober
- He was a young man, very spare and very burned, with bright red hair and blue eyes that had a kind of laughter in them, and yet were sober. [9]
- The earth itself was still and sober. [11]
- Is the fellow to that to be found in literature, ancient or modern, foreign or domestic, living or dead, drunk or sober? [5]
- Everybody who saw the march, saw that the Champion of the Teetotalers was half seas over, and noted also that his brother, who made no hypocritical pretensions to extra temperance virtues, was dignified and sober. [5]
- The first time she saw him he was not sober. [11]
- Every morning he rose and went about the city, always with less hope, and every night he returned to his lodging, but not always sober. [4]
- Mr. Flint's face remained sober. [9]
- Let us be quite sober. [7]
- Her face was quite sober. [5]
- He's the best naturedest old fool in Arkansaw--never hurt nobody, drunk nor sober. [5]
Short sentences using sober
- Beware of these sober men. [9]
Sentences containing sober two or more times
- The nest of Sons of Liberty that Driscoll landed in had not a sober bird in it; in fact there was probably not an entirely sober one in the auditorium. [5]
- Alert-minded drunk or sober, drunk, he was lightning-tongued, and he could play as well drunk as sober, too; but more than once a sympathetic officer altered the tactics that McGilveray might not be compelled to march, and so expose his condition. [11]
- Even a sober person does not like to have a human being emptied on him when he is not going any harm; a person who is not sober cannot endure such an attention at all. [5]
- When I am merry and mad, Merry and mad be you; When I am sober and sad, Be sad and sober too! [10]
More example sentences with the word sober in them
- By and by you sober down, and then you perceive that you have been drunk on the smell of somebody else's cork. [5]
- The tune, played with precision and in exact time, began to thrill in the hearts of Nicholas and Natasha, arousing in them the same kind of sober mirth as radiated from Anisya Fedorovna's whole being. [2]
- Perhaps public opinion will sober you then. [8]
- Carmen says that will be our sober room, where we go when we want to repent of things. [4]
- But for this whole year he has been sober, and he may keep his pledge. [11]
- He never spoke when sober, he spoke continuously when he wasn't. [5]
- Mingled with these were occasional remarks of skeptics shaken, in human fashion, by the suggestion of the inevitable end that never fails to sober and terrify humanity. [9]
- At times he was reckless beyond words to describe, and again he would fall sober for a day. [9]
- Master Ulman Pernhart was married in a right sober fashion to fair Mistress Giovanna, and I remember to this day seeing them wed in Saint Laurence's Church. [10]
- At times he was drunk for forty hours at a stretch, when he would shut himself in his cabin and leave his ship to the care of Cockle, who navigated with the sober portion of the crew. [9]
- Besides the military was a sober deputation of citizens, and hovering behind the whole a horde of curious, blanketed braves, come to get a first glimpse of the great white captain. [9]
- To me the veldt, in its sober winter garb, was surpassingly beautiful. [5]
- He has been up and down, now sober for a year, now drunken for a month, now in, now out of a place, until this past year. [11]
- I shall therefore undertake a sober examination of its principles, its facts, and some points of its history. [3]
- Mother wanted to try it, but on sober second thought she put me through. [5]
- He had declared to Richard, in their quiet talk upon the subject, that Frank must have been anything but sober when he did it. [11]
- If he wants to make himself an exception to the sober people whose cooking will make him long for the maddening bowl, he must bring his poison with him. [4]
- When people came to know, they said that to have done it when sober had shown him possessed of a kind of maliciousness and cynicism almost pardonable, but to do it when tipsy proved him merely weak and foolish. [11]
- I have gone to a town with a sober literary essay in my pocket, and seen myself everywhere announced as the most desperate of buffos,--one who was obliged to restrain himself in the full exercise of his powers, from prudential considerations. [6]
- He had four thousand dollars left, and his tiny income of three hundred, when he went to Sally Seabrook, after having been sober for a month, and begged her to marry him. [11]
- Why was not this Thing ever present, to chasten and sober me? [9]
- As a rule they seem drunk with health, and with the surprise of it, the wonder of it, the unspeakable glory and splendour of it, after a long sober spell spent in inventing imaginary diseases and concreting them with doctor-stuff. [5]
- As a rule they seem drunk with health, and with the surprise of it, the wonder of it, the unspeakable glory and splendor of it, after a long, sober spell spent in inventing imaginary diseases and concreting them with doctor-stuff. [5]
- Here and there they burst out in sudden conflagrations of vivid yellow against a background of sober or sombre color, with a so startling effect as to make a body catch his breath with the happy surprise of it. [5]
- Then they slapped their knees, looked at Mr. Lincoln's face, which was perfectly sober, and laughed again, a little fainter. [9]
- Men were losing their heads; there was an element of irresponsibility in the new outbreak likely to breed some violent act, which every man of them would lament when sober again. [11]
- In place of the would-be squire I had encountered in Threadneedle Street, here was an unctuous person of business in sober gray; but he still wore the hypocritical smirk with no joy in it. [9]
- I will put the wine-flask aside--give me a drink of water, for the next few hours I must keep a sober head. [10]
- He vowed that the sober Whig company his father brought there gave him the vapours. [9]
- But now, in the sober light of day, how different did this mad, rash deed appear; how heavily had he already been punished; what consequences might it not entail? [10]
- For a time the sober ants did as they had done at first--carried their friends home and threw the strangers overboard. [5]
- It accurately describes the sober and unobtrusive gem-work of the Taj; that is, to the very highly-educated one person in a thousand; but it most falsely describes it to the 999. [5]
- But it was the sight of his stricken father that first brought him completely to his sober senses. [10]
- So here was the novelty of a king without a keeper, an absolute monarch who was absolute in sober truth and not by a fiction of words. [5]
- A member of the Ladies' Temperance Refuge fished him out, took him in hand, got up a subscription for him, kept him sober a whole week, then got a situation for him. [5]
- I don't mean the kind of sober that comes of leaving liquor alone--not that. [5]
- Flaming soldiers of the Governor's guard, two by two; sober, sandalled friars in brown, priests in their robes,--another batch of color; crosses shimmering, tapers emerging from the cool darkness within to pale by the light of day. [9]
- Time wore off the effects of the harmless debauch, and restored the giddy revellers to the regimen of sober thought, as reformed spiritual inebriates. [6]
- I remembered that the committee all wore plain and sober clothes, and carried no swords. [9]
- But, then, to tell you the sober truth, I'm as poor as a church mouse. [11]
- At the great Techu-festival at Dendera intoxication seems to have been as much commanded as at the festivals of Dionysus under the Ptolemies, one of whom (Ptolemy Dionysus) threatened those who remained sober with the punishment of death. [10]
- As it now stands, we must appeal to the sober sense and patriotism of the people. [7]
- But Joan was standing close by, and she looked up in his face, and said in her sober, earnest way: "I would I might see thy head struck from thy body! [5]
- The afternoon we spent in sober talk, Mr. Bordley giving me much sound advice, and writing me several letters of recommendation to gentlemen in Congress. [9]
- I was industrious, sober, willing to do anything. [9]
- He knew Melissa's sober, thoughtful nature, and the retired, joyless life she led with her surly old father. [10]
- Mellowness and a sober sweetness were in the tone. [11]
- Well, I was so hungry for the ways and the sober talk I was used to, that I tried to ring in with the old people, but they wouldn't have it. [5]
- They had been so for generations, and it was only gradually that the Cambridge Saturnalia were replaced by the decencies and solemnities of the present sober anniversary. [6]
- He would not, she was sure, if they lived a sober and a righteous life. [9]
- Presently the sober second thought came, and Halliday noticed that a ghastly anxiety was beginning to show up in a good many faces. [5]
- Behold me, David Ritchie, Federalist, execrably sober, at the head of the column behind the leader. [9]
- Does the mind remain sober with the body is drunk? [5]
- It may be read in my book that the Persians always reflected in the morning, when sober, upon the resolutions formed the night before, while drunk. [10]
- Now, in his quiet, sober intervals he read omnivorously, and worked out problems in physics for which he had a taste, until the old appetite surged over him again. [11]
- We wish to provide a place for our coachman, who has been with us a 21 years, and is sober, active, diligent, and unusually bright and capable. [5]
- His address is printed in another column, and we believe it will appeal to the intelligence and sober judgment of the state. [9]
- He was so popular at home, and so trusted--during his sober intervals --that he was enabled to use the name of a principal citizen, and get a large sum of money at the bank. [5]
- He would not play hookey, even when his sober judgment told him it was the most profitable thing he could do. [5]
- Never within the peace of his realm, nay and under his very eyes, had so much noble blood been shed in base brawling as here in our sober city, and he would forthwith make an example of the guilty men. [10]
- Not a day passes, nor if I come in sober, not a night, when I do not see her dear face, either waking or dreaming. [10]
- This gave the parents a confidence that yielded some hours of sober joy; they believed that Ambulinia would now cease to love Elfonzo, and that her stolen affections would now expire with her misguided opinions. [5]
- The dreams of Oriental fancy have become the sober facts of our every-day life, and the chemist is the magician to whom we owe them. [3]
- There were two or three words in her short remark that always sober people, and suggest silence or brief moral reflections. [6]
- Hardly had we opened the gate when a tall gentleman of grave demeanor and sober dress rose from his seat on the porch, and I recognized my friend of Cahokia days, Monsieur Gratiot. [9]
- It was not, one could hear, exactly sober talk; there was laughter and raillery and earnestness mingled. [4]
- Only a couple of times a year--when he knew from their valets that they had money in hand--he would turn up of a morning quite sober and with a deep bow would ask them to help him. [2]
- They were pillars of the temple of liberty; and now that they have crumbled away that temple must fall unless we, their descendants, supply their places with other pillars, hewn from the solid quarry of sober reason. [7]
- Yet a kind of romance gilds for me the sober tableland of that cold New England hill where I came in contact with a world so strange to me, and destined to leave such mingled and lasting impressions. [6]
- The slight perfume of incense and the sober singing of the assembled worshippers were soothing to her senses, and, as she took a seat on one of the benches, she felt sheltered and safe. [10]
- In the middle of a sober conversation begun by Ilagin about the year's harvest, Nicholas pointed to the red-spotted bitch. [2]
- The mild stranger, not yet more than half sober, stood there, under a scathing fire of vituperation, meek and bewildered, looking from one to another of his assailants, and wondering what he could have done to invoke such a storm. [5]
- In sober hours, none too frequent, he was rather sorrowfully welcomed by the sieur and the chevalier. [11]
- Folks who will never draw another sober breath till they do it in the grave. [5]
- I made up my mind one night that if I could pay my debts and get out of Charlestown I would go into the back country and study law and sober down. [9]
- I shall once more return to sober life, satisfied with having secured three months of sunshine in this valley of shadows and darkness. [4]
- Men were still monstrosities to him, still deformities, and in his sober moments he had no desire to be like them, but their strange and unsocial and uncanny construction was no longer offensive to him. [5]
- A very grave man--in fact his gravity amounted to solemnity, and almost to austerity--sat opposite us and he was "tight," but doing his best to appear sober. [5]
- But if a man was dead sober, I reckon maybe that whack might fetch him; I dono. [5]
- Yet in his magnificent day-dreams there was nothing wild--nothing but what sober reason sanctioned. [5]
- They are largely made up of sober reflections, and appeared to me to require some lively human interest to save them from wearisome didactic dulness. [6]
- Fellahin) means ploughman]--and laugh to scorn the sober regularity with which we, tilling the dark soil, live through our lives to a tardy death, in honest labor both of mind and body. [10]
- Lyman gits drunk, Jethro keeps sober and saves. [9]
- Time had turned it very dark, and the stately bedsteads and tall cabinets and claw-footed chairs and tables were in keeping with the sober dignity of the ancient mansion. [6]
- When she reached it she was sober. [5]
- The French Canadian is on the whole sober and industrious; but when he breaks away from sobriety and industry he becomes a vicious element in the general organism. [11]
- I have not intended, and do not now intend, that it shall be a great, exhausting affair, but a snug, sober column of 10,000 or 15,000. [7]
- So that when, in the afternoon, he made up his mind to keep his engagement with Mrs. Falchion, and left the valley for the hills, he was not entirely sober. [11]
- His hat was in his hand; his hair was plastered down more neatly than ever, and his coat was a faultless and sober creation of a Franklin Avenue tailor. [9]
- I was indeed in an unenviable plight, by no means sure that I would not be slain out of hand when they became sufficiently sober to capture me. [9]
- We find, indeed, if we go below the surface of manners, sober, discreet, and sweet domestic life, and an appreciation of the virtues. [4]
- On sober reflection I have come to believe that you did the very best thing for my reputation. [9]
- On the voyage I had many sober thoughts of my own to occupy me of the terrible fate, from which, by Divine inter position, I had been rescued; of the home I had left behind. [9]
- Two rows of houses had formerly divided this rendezvous for the sober and the reckless from the highroad, but they had long since been pulled down and laid level with the ground by successive landlords. [10]
- In one of his sober intervals he had met Sally Seabrook in the street. [11]
- He argues from his comparison of texts in a perfectly sober, old-fashioned way, as his ancestor Peter Bulkeley might have done. [6]
- The servants let him sleep on, and bustled about without noticing him; only an overseer pointed to him, and said laughing: "His companions went home no more sober than that one. [10]
- And Ruth laughed her merriest laugh, and then looked sober again. [5]
- But, fortunately, he held small converse with me, and when sober busied himself in trying to find the island and in cursing the fate by which it eluded him. [9]
- When he did, he never questioned the bill, and, what was most important, whether he was sober or "warm as a thrush," he always treated Carterette with respect, though she was not unsparing with her tongue under slight temptation. [11]
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