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  • adjective totally sober

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Examples

  • I could tell that, unlike the last time Johnny and I fought, he was stone-sober.

    I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone Stephanie Kuehnert 2008

  • I could tell that, unlike the last time Johnny and I fought, he was stone-sober.

    I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone Stephanie Kuehnert 2008

  • I could tell that, unlike the last time Johnny and I fought, he was stone-sober.

    I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone Stephanie Kuehnert 2008

  • It was at this precise moment that Graham knew, with a sudden icy certainty, that he was stone-sober and that the story he had been listening to was nothing less than the truth.

    Of Time and Stars Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

  • It was at this precise moment that Graham knew, with a sudden icy certainty, that he was stone-sober and that the story he had been listening to was nothing less than the truth.

    Reach for Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956

  • It was at this precise moment that Graham knew, with a sudden icy certainty, that he was stone-sober and that the story he had been listening to was nothing less than the truth.

    Reach For Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956

  • Violent crime rates are not skyrocketing here, but are in Europe; and suicidal, insane, and sometimes even stone-sober murderers from the lunatic fringe, left and right, wreak havoc in increasing numbers whether on idyllic Norwegian islands, U.S. Army bases, or quiet college campuses.

    All Stories 2011

  • On GMA the tiny criminal Illinois Governor told a stone-sober Diane Sawyer that he was totally going to appoint Oprah Winfrey to Barack Obama's Senate seat.

    Gawker 2009

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