How to Use tipsy in a Sentence

tipsy

adjective
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  • Not just tipsy, like on the ground rolling around drunk.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 28 Apr. 2018
  • There’s an early show and a late show, or one show with me sober and one show with me more tipsy.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2021
  • The space no longer conjures up images of neon beer signs and tipsy games of ping pong.
    — Hunter Boyce, ajc, 27 July 2022
  • Faux pas may be best avoided by staying on just the right side of tipsy.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 June 2018
  • Maybe large enough to knock some really tipsy items off the shelves.
    — Jesse Paul, The Denver Post, 22 Apr. 2017
  • Other times, your tipsy little craft defies the odds and makes it through the rapids.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Out of somewhere, a waltz emerged, a little tipsy on its feet.
    — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 19 May 2017
  • Some in the room were tipsy enough not to care, including one of the presenters.
    — Ben Widdicombe, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2020
  • When Raj later emerges—tipsy, of course—Anu wants to know what is going on.
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 8 Nov. 2018
  • The time a robber walked in the door and announced a holdup, got met with tipsy laughter, and sulked away with nothing.
    — John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2018
  • The classic shape looks a little tipsy though, and the statement comes in form of the slanted angle.
    — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
  • The divers from the Ocean X team scout these regions for wrecks that could hold an antique, but tipsy cargo.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2019
  • From the jump, the show is famously less tipsy than its boozy award show sibling the Golden Globes.
    — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 25 Apr. 2021
  • But Computer Space proved too complex for tipsy patrons to get the hang of in a noisy bar.
    — PCMAG, 27 June 2022
  • As a minute wound down on the game clock, the theater's packed crowd of 1,300 onlookers, many of them slightly tipsy, cheered her on.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, latimes.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The floor began to fill around midnight, and people danced in tipsy circles.
    — Sofiya Ballin, Philly.com, 22 June 2017
  • The film eventually falls off the track, perhaps a bit tipsy.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Hervé stood at the front of the room, smiling, watching the tipsy crowd work through the buffet line and find seats at wooden banquet tables.
    — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appétit, 13 Dec. 2019
  • To the naked eye, these booze-free cocktails are indistinguishable from the ones that will get you tipsy.
    — Alyson Krueger, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Here's a picture of three tipsy Mid-City sailors in a canoe, under the afternoon sun.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 16 May 2018
  • Singing cowboy Gene Autry, a little tipsy, falling off his horse, for one.
    — From Express-News Archives, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Feb. 2018
  • His hilarious tipsy confrontation with the witch is the highlight of the play.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Then Margaret asks Elizabeth to come over and get a little bit tipsy.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2022
  • That in 2017, when our democracy is up in the air, a rosé-tipsy Bieber is the correct person to kick off the East End summer bacchanal?
    — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 30 May 2017
  • Watching Green Flash this past week has been like watching a tipsy fellow fall down a staircase — the hits keep coming and the damage gets worse and worse.
    — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The downtown business crowd came for lunch, matrons from Alamo Heights got tipsy in the afternoon and every night the art mob was all over us like a dog on a June bug.
    — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 12 June 2020
  • Players are invited to a tea party at a tipsy table for a unique take on a stacking game.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The tipsy treats on this list combine chocolate, cake or ice cream with liquors such as whiskey, rum and vodka for the ultimate drunken desserts.
    — Danny Sanchez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 June 2017
  • Others, like a group of tipsy Swedes wearing horned helmets, were stealing away some of the demand for pictures.
    — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • This place has been making tipsy people feel like legitimate rock stars since the late 1980s.
    — Megan Dubois, Chron, 24 Feb. 2023

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