sobriety - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • maintain: There are over 3,000 groups throughout the UK dedicated to helping those with a serious alcohol problem achieve and maintain sobriety.
  • achieve: Members are helped to achieve sobriety by staying away from drink, one day at a time.
  • promote: The program focuses on taking each day at a time, abstaining from the first drink to promote complete sobriety.
  • bring: The next morning brings slightly more sobriety but no more clarity.

Adjective modifier

  • relative: Real Rooms ' saving grace is the relative sobriety of its experts.
  • complete: The program focuses on taking each day at a time, abstaining from the first drink to promote complete sobriety.
  • superb: Spall brings a superb sobriety and humanity to the role, even as he despatches Nazi war criminals two at a time.
  • certain: An instant later the cloud seemed to have passed; but Father Brown still spoke with a certain sobriety and firmness.
  • early: Others have had the same sponsor since early sobriety.
  • own: In great part, it is by carrying the message of recovery to others like ourselves that we keep our own sobriety.

Modifies a noun

  • test: The best test for moderate AMS is to have the person walk a straight line heel to toe just like a sobriety test.

Noun used with modifier

  • field: The officers then conducted field sobriety tests and arrested the 25-year-old.
  • year: I am happy to tell you that I have just picked up my 17 year sobriety chip.

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