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How to use Sober in a sentence

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That argument is false, Sober said, because it assumes we know what God was trying to do with the panda's thumb.
Thanks for your sober and clearheaded assessment of the situation and its significance.
The sober person will bear witness to all the messy foibles of your evening.
Some writers are members of the tin-foil hat brigade, but others provide sober analysis of the election results that raise disturbing questions.
For this he needs courage above all, and a sober, clearheaded approach to sport, to his own fame and that of others.
Better get back to toking and drinking, Jeff, if this is what you come up with sober.
Croft, sober in his tweed hunting jacket, tan buckskins and black, white-topped boots, grinned and went up to his friend.
He is a man on the edge of a mental abyss, a soul tortured by events in his past he dare not confront when sober.
His expression was perfectly sober, and he didn't sound anything but serious.
Anyone undertaking a sober assessment of our drug and alcohol laws would conclude that they are thoroughly inconsistent.
You must be relatively sober or they'll discount the act as drunken foolishness.
Inside, the library has something of the sober, purposeful and hand-crafted feel of a ship of the line of Nelson's time.
As other women are pulling on their veils she walks past us in a plain black headscarf and a sober dark ensemble.
I laid in bed last night, totally sober, praying for alcohol to fall out of the sky and into my mouth.
The classroom, painted in its sober colours of beige and black, is half-full.
The first thing that he needed was a trustworthy driver, who could be relied on to stay sober.
In a sober dark trouser suit and sensible walking shoes, she ticks the names off the electoral list on her clipboard.
A sober brick building, unpretentious in scale and design, lies modestly low among lawns at the end of a road with playing fields on either side.
It was weird being the only sober one amongst the completely bladdered players.
Trust me, I've been around a few drunks and being sober and standing there trying to understand what they are saying is hard enough.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But that bit about the sober gray eyes and the piquant chin Jane was responsible for.
It proves, however, that the crew of the drogher must have been sober, or they could not have found their way clear of it.
As bad luck would have it, there was trouble near, between a gentleman who had been drinking wine, and a pavior who was sober.
If she's sober after a while, perhaps she'll be able to talk to me coherently.
His comportment was cheerful in a sober fashion, notwithstanding the transparent perturbation of his spirit.
She will allay your intoxication by gentle degrees, and send you sober home.
If the owl is a sober and wise bird he forgets all about it when he woos his mate.
Above all, because including all, the century will ask for men of sober mind.
But in sober truth, Pope, whether as a gardener or as a poet, required no enlarger or improver of his works.
Now in sober truth there is a magnificent idea in these monsters of the apocalypse.
The better to inure him to it, he was never allowed to be sober for a moment.
The Welchman was the only one that was sober, but the boys said there was not enough liquor in the South to get him drunk.
Our men said they kept sober in order to strip the boozy sailor of his money, by gambling.
Not whoring, not drunkenness, not covetousness shall they be the ministrants of, but in all ways lead just and sober lives.
Anyway, I have ascertained that the greater proportion of the orangemen were sober.
For the most part, however, the men were sober enough over their leave-taking.
Their taciturnity and irrisibility however, are confined to their sober hours.
The skies they were ashen and sober, and the leaves they were crisped and sere.
Compared to his gaudiness of decking, the raiment of the others was mean and sober.
They dressed in sober black, and kept stated hours of prayer, and went not abroad unless necessity compelled them thereunto.
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