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  • “Martin—Barnes was dead-drunk, and Audrey was in tears, and before it was midnight I had to admit I was exhausted and go to bed.”

    The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010

  • High school kids would hop the cemetery gate to get dead-drunk.

    Sharon Glassman: What is Work: Why to Have a Green Burial from "The Green Reaper" 2010

  • I was being shaken about too much to be able to write, though unable to shake off the foul-smelling proletarian who had lurched into my compartment; a dead-drunk puss-in-boots with a full beard.

    Archive 2009-10-01 David McDuff 2009

  • The dead-drunk prom princess in Sixteen Candles gets her lush hair slammed in a door and consents to let her equally drunken girlfriends chop it off.

    Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007

  • The dead-drunk prom princess in Sixteen Candles gets her lush hair slammed in a door and consents to let her equally drunken girlfriends chop it off.

    Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007

  • The dead-drunk prom princess in Sixteen Candles gets her lush hair slammed in a door and consents to let her equally drunken girlfriends chop it off.

    Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007

  • As he passed the bar, he just happened to spot a human object laying dead-drunk in the gutter in front of the bar.

    "Classical" American Music The Daily Growler 2006

  • I saw you one night a week ago laid dead-drunk by the roadside, as I returned from Stilbro 'market; and while you preach peace, you make it the business of your life to stir up dissension.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • They all simultaneously swore — by Allah! — that you had been found without a lantern, dead-drunk, beating respectable people, breaking into houses, invading and robbing harims.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • A man was sleeping dead-drunk on the highway and the bridle of spontaneity had slipped from his hands.

    The Gulistan of Sa'di 2003

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