(1) The norm now for a good night is to get drunk, to get sozzled , to get hammered.

(2) It's a chance to reminisce at length, there's usually a nice slow ride in a car, and it's a legitimate excuse to get mildly sozzled while people bring you cakes and sandwiches.

(3) Trapped in his hotel and suffering from severe jetlag, Bob takes refuge in the hotel bar and gets gently sozzled every night, killing time until he has to go back home to his stale marriage and whiny kids.

(4) It also means that seniors are scared to walk out after the pubs close because of sozzled youths acting funky, smashing shop windows, trashing the public loos, doing drugs in the bus shelter and so forth.

(5) There can't be many better things than sitting in the middle of a crowd on a sunny day getting steadily sozzled .

(6) While riding through Kent, I suddenly realize that in my sozzled state, I'd forgotten my passport.

(7) Now no one is now allowed on the grass and concentrating on the cricket is almost impossible as the sozzled Mexican-wavers leap up and down incessantly.

(8) At last there's more to Calais than sozzled British daytrippers lugging around crates of cheap plonk.

(9) I intend to be continuously sozzled through Christmas.

(10) After half an hour of it, you were almost glad to be back in the company of sozzled aunties, joining in a spirited rendition of the hokey-cokey.

(11) But when they're serving shots of vodka at the equivalent of 33 pence a go, one is generally too sozzled to complain viciously.

(12) Our champagne glasses were miraculously topped up at every opportunity and I'm so hopelessly out of practise at the heavy drinking lark now, that I was hopelessly sozzled by about 4pm.

(13) The era of the sozzled old school hack is drawing to a close and, eventually, there may be no one around to raise a glass to it.

(14) They only get sozzled when they've got something to celebrate.

(15) The minister also joined us at the bar and got sozzled .

(16) The man sitting next to Ford was a bit sozzled by now.

(17) Now here we were, sozzled , effortlessly riding above it all on the way to yet more beer.

(18) While all this has been going on, the Government has been warning us about the dangers of binge drinking - a campaign picked up with evangelical zeal by the sort of national newspapers that once provided a haven for the terminally sozzled .

(19) We will be sitting happily by the banks of the Corrib getting pleasantly sozzled and feeding swans with leftover potato salad, or something.

(20) He had crammed revision in at the last possible minute and wasted most of his study leave going out with the mates and getting sozzled .