Sample Sentences for
sober
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(editor-reviewed)

sober as in:  Talk to me when your sober.

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She was still sober enough to know the situation was dangerous.
sober = not under the influence of alcohol
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    I'm worried about her. I seldom see her sober and without a hangover.
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    And the Abnegation don't drink alcohol, so everyone is sober.  (source)
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    Apparently, while he was still sober, Hans was invited to the stage to play the accordion.  (source)
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    He was sober enough, and that surprised me.  (source)
    sober = not under the influence of alcohol
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    He turns in his seat to look at us and explains, "They're just doing one of those sobriety checks."  (source)
    sobriety = the state of not being under the influence of alcohol
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    I think she never in her life called anyone a fool, though she never bore one gladly, but she would say, "Well, it appears to me that Mrs. So-and-So is the least bit limited" Walter, three years again younger than Edward, was soberer than we.†  (source)
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    Yes, she became for me, as it were, the subject of a bet—the trophy of an athlete's achievement, a parsley crown that is the symbol of his chastity, his soberness, his abstentions, and of his inflexible will.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    When Winston got drunk and started fighting, the locals knew it was time for the soberest man to ride and get Fannie.†  (source)
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    Sobre el olivar hay un cielo hundido y una lluvia oscura de luceros fríos.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is an archaic spelling. Today it is spelled sober.
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    "You don't interfere with my drinking, and I'll stay sober enough to help you," says Haymitch.  (source)
    sober = not under the influence of alcohol
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    New instructors, elderly townsmen of unreliable sobriety and disposition, are brought in.†  (source)
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    Soberer in the cold air, she said she would go in herself.†  (source)
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    M. de Bellegarde evidently appreciated the comical element in the question, but he looked at Newman a moment with extreme soberness.†  (source)
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sober up as in:  I need to sober up.

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    Talk to me after you sober up.
    sober up = become less drunk
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    In the daytime, he kept sober, but in the evenings, as the prospect of sleep and nightmares loomed, he was overcome by the need.  (source)
    sober = not drunk
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    I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.  (source)
    sober = make less drunk
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    But secretly I'm wondering if Haymitch sobered up long enough to help Peeta and me because he thought we just might have the wits to survive.  (source)
    sobered up = stopped being drunk
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    I needed to sober up a little, so I walked.  (source)
    sober up = become less drunk
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    But you sure didn't get drunk at Fort Carthage and then walk all this way without sobering up.  (source)
    sobering up = becoming less drunk
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    I just told her plainly that currant wine wasn't meant to be drunk three tumblerfuls at a time and that if a child I had to do with was so greedy I'd sober her up with a right good spanking.  (source)
    sober = make less drunk
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    The Admiral stiffens up—sobers up—almost instantly.†  (source)
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    It was the general opinion of Maycomb, however, that Mrs. Merriweather had sobered him up and made a reasonably useful citizen of him.  (source)
    sobered = became less drunk (or got completely past drunkenness)
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    After we sobered up a bit with coffee and Mini Thins, Patrick drove me home.  (source)
    sobered up = became less drunk
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    "That she'd take a kid out to sea and let it drown--you wouldn't think a woman could do a thing like that?" I said to him: "Are you sure she did do it?" He said and in saying it he seemed suddenly to sober up: "I'm quite sure."  (source)
    sober up = become less drunk
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    O'Dell said, sobering up.†  (source)
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    We step out into the freezing air and it helps sober me up a little.  (source)
    sober = become less drunk (or get completely past drunkenness)
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sobering as in:  a sobering thought

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    These are sobering statistics that should leave all of us concerned.
    sobering = making one serious about an issue
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    Gavril asked in a slightly more sober tone.  (source)
    sober = serious
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    The sober young divinity student seemed an odd match for Judith's high spirits.  (source)
    sober = serious-minded
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    "Well, I can understand that," I said soberly.  (source)
    soberly = in a serious manner
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    Philip Lombard's face changed—sobered.  (source)
    sobered = became serious
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    For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed forever from the sobering influence of external danger.  (source)
    sobering = making one serious
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    In a sober voice my father said, "Some day you may have to live in town."  (source)
    sober = serious
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    His voice sobers.†  (source)
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    This opulent sobriety betrayed the divided nature of the school, just as in a different way the two rivers that it straddled did.  (source)
    sobriety = seriousness
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    Gilbert had whisked the pin out of sight and was studying his history with the soberest face in the world; but when the commotion subsided he looked at Anne and winked with inexpressible drollery.  (source)
    soberest = most serious
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    Edmund's first object the next morning was to see his father alone, and give him a fair statement of the whole acting scheme, defending his own share in it as far only as he could then, in a soberer moment, feel his motives to deserve, and acknowledging, with perfect ingenuousness, that his concession had been attended with such partial good as to make his judgment in it very doubtful.  (source)
    soberer = more thoughtful (less emotional)
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    Mr. Yates had staid to see the destruction of every theatrical preparation at Mansfield, the removal of everything appertaining to the play: he left the house in all the soberness of its general character; and Sir Thomas hoped, in seeing him out of it, to be rid of the worst object connected with the scheme, and the last that must be inevitably reminding him of its existence.  (source)
    soberness = seriousness
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Mr. Murry looked at her soberly.  (source)
    soberly = in a serious manner
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