drunk driving

noun

1. the operating of a motor vehicle while drunk.

Other Words From

• drunk-driving adjective

Example Sentences

Many vehicle accidents are attributed to drunk driving in Hawaii.

From Ars Technica

To work on serious cases, such as drunk driving or domestic violence, an attorney must have at least a year of legal experience and have represented people in two trials and hearings.

From ProPublica

Burton’s research looks to see if a policy that worked to stop smoking actually could have led people to drink more and led to measurable increases in drunk driving fatalities.

From Vox

Economists Scott Adams and Chad Cotti of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and UW Oshkosh, respectively, looked into the relationship between smoking bans and drunk driving between 2000 and 2005.

From Vox

All of this to say that if there was in fact a small increase in fatal drunk driving accidents as a result of these bans, the bans were still worth it.

From Vox

She was caught on tape drunkenly berating law enforcement after being pulled over and taken in for drunk driving.

From The Daily Beast

The antidote to both dangers—fireworks and drunk driving—is the same: tighter regulation.

From The Daily Beast

He was arrested not long afterwards for drunk driving while vacationing in Florida.

From The Daily Beast

Imbrecht already had two drunk driving convictions under his belt.

From The Daily Beast

His most recent arrest had been for drunk driving in another borrowed BMW on February 17 of this year.

From The Daily Beast