(superl.) Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.
(superl.) Not intoxicated or excited by spirituous liquors; as, the sot may at times be sober.
(superl.) Not mad or insane; not wild, visionary, or heated with passion; exercising cool, dispassionate reason; self-controlled; self-possessed.
(superl.) Not proceeding from, or attended with, passion; calm; as, sober judgment; a man in his sober senses.
(superl.) Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.
(v. t.) To make sober.
(v. i.) To become sober; -- often with down.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's typically sober and elegant, and Cotillard excels in a nervy, vulnerable role.
(2) Read Rachel’s full story Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chris Owen: ‘I’ve been sober for six years now, and I don’t miss alcohol.’ Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian I spent my 20s playing Russian roulette with alcohol The NHS has been there time and time again for Chris Owen, who battled alcoholism throughout his 20s.
(3) Anthony Wells, director of YouGov’s political and social research team, said: “While there will be speculation about whether this movement is connected to the tragic death of Jo Cox, we do not think that it is... We are now in the final week of the referendum campaign and the swing back towards the status quo appears to be in full force.” EU referendum voters unconvinced by scare tactics: ‘I just want to do what’s right’ Read more Today, both sides will resume their battle to capture the votes of the undecided and to persuade people to switch sides, though both the Leave and Remain camps say that the manner of their campaigning will be more sober and less combative.
(4) Previous research has found a relationship between increased quantity of alcohol usually consumed per drinking occasion and decreased sober cognitive performance.
(5) "Yet the sobering fact remains that a transition to a low-carbon, inclusive green economy is happening far too slowly and the opportunity for meeting the 44 gigatonne target is narrowing annually," Steiner said.
(6) The haemostatic imbalance normalizes within two or three weeks of soberness while the immune system requires about two months to recover.
(7) Chambers claims she became extremely intoxicated while her ex-boyfriend remained much more sober, and says she has no memory of him having sex with her that night.
(8) Therefore, the presence of pulmonary emboli in association with sagittal sinus thrombosis mandates a sober assessment of the need of anticoagulation therapy in the absence of obvious contraindication.
(9) Mutual intoxication was a feature in 44% of the cases and in 34% both participants were sober.
(10) Impulsive and bonhomous, Saakashvili, meanwhile, is clearly the temperamental opposite of Putin, the sober and clinical former KGB colonel.
(11) Barton rubs Old Firm up the wrong way Joey Barton apologises ‘unreservedly’ after being sent home by Rangers Read more The phrase “Joey Barton Twitter storm” is pretty much a tautology, so it was no surprise that his decision to sign for Rangers in May had social media in a kerfuffle when his 2012 tweet – “I am a Celtic fan” – was dredged up so that it might be subject to calm and sober scrutiny from all concerned.
(12) And yet here I am today, a sober, emancipated, successful and happy woman.
(13) After all, on any sober calculation of relative sins, HSBC's dealings with Mexican drug bandits were surely several leagues more serious than other banks' Libor-rigging scandals.
(14) In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).
(15) Alcoholics reported more anger and aggression when drinking than when sober and this effect was greatest among individuals with a history of childhood aggression.
(16) She observed soberly that "the moment human beings lacked their own government and had to fall back upon their minimum rights, no authority was left to protect them and no institution was willing to guarantee them … Loss of national rights was identical with loss of human rights … The rights of man, supposedly inalienable, proved to be unenforceable … whenever people appeared who were no longer citizens of any sovereign state."
(17) It's not the most groundbreaking piece of research, but I did find it both instructive and sobering.
(18) In a year that will be punctuated by sober reflection and a series of commemorative occasions, it is tempting to assume a certain inevitability to events, especially when looking at them through the prism of hindsight.
(19) Even in alcoholics who have been sober for a long time, increased cardiac output is very common and these changes are similar to those seen in some patients with labile hypertension.
(20) He was a vegan, sober, nonsexual God-botherer partying in the blood-soaked Meatpacking District with the sex-and-druggers.
Soler
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Solere
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of methylation sites in alpha Bgt has been shown to decrease significantly upon binding of the toxin to the AcChR [Soler, G., Farach, M. C., Farach, H. A., Mattingly, J. R., & Martinez-Carrion, M. (1983) Arch.
(2) Officials also stressed that the company operated as its own entity with its own set of directors, and Soler and the city hall were not involved in any way with the planning of the promotional campaign.
(3) And freedom will not be brought by the US or any other country,” Berta Soler, leader of the Ladies in White, a dissident group composed of wives and relatives of former political prisoners, said in an interview published on their website .
(4) On Wednesday, facing the Cincinnati Reds, Cuban Jorge Soler made his MLB debut by going deep in his very first at-bat.
(5) A clinical-therapeutic assay carried out at the "William Soler" pediatric teaching hospital in children admitted due to an acute diarrheic syndrome and treated with aminosidine sulfate is presented.
(6) Juan Soler, a member of the ruling People's party (PP), gave out the items at an event in Getafe, a city in Madrid's metropolitan area.
(7) Ronald Koeman will be the fifth coach Soler has had since taking over in October 2004, when Valencia were statistically the continent's third-best club, having won two league titles and been to two European Cup finals in four years.
(8) "Thermal gel" analysis of the aggregation of AcChR subunits induced by heat (G. Soler, J. R. Mattingly, and M. Martinez-Carrion (1984) Biochemistry 23, 4630) has also been used to assess the effects of detergent presence on the AcChR protein.
(9) When we see a photograph of the president of the United States laughing and shaking hands with the only dictatorship in the western Hemisphere, I will be thinking of Berta Soler of the Ladies in White and her fellow human rights and democracy advocates,” said New Jersey Democrat Bob Menendez in a blistering Senate speech last week , referring to a Cuban dissident leader and her followers.
(10) Privately Valencia's veterans believe the club failed to sign anyone who would really improve the starting XI, and although a tendency not just to hit the self-destruction button but to batter it into submission has long existed at Valencia - where no coach has lasted four years since Di Stéfano between 1970 and 1974 - to describe Soler as a pretty bad president would be like calling Noel Edmonds slightly irritating.
(11) Denise Soler, a former shop assistant and ‘pied-noir’ – the name given to French people born in Algeria who returned to France after independence – said: “I’m not racist but people are worried by the number of Muslims arriving in France.” Isabelle Houssays, an insurance worker who joined the party last year, impressed by its new, “softer” image, said: “She’s a visionary who wants to save our country.” Hervé, a telecoms technician in his 50s who used to vote for the left, had come out of curiosity and because he agreed with her drive to allocate benefits for the French above immigrants.
(12) And it serves him right because Soler was the man who sacked Quique Sánchez Flores on Sunday night with Valencia in fourth place, just four points off leaders Madrid.
(13) Moya and his wife Berta Soler – the leader of the dissident group Ladies in White - were among several dozen people detained for several hours on Sunday by Cuban security officials to prevent them attending the papal mass in Revolution Square .
(14) When he came back after the summer and tried to play the hardman, they turned against him and Soler stabbed him in the back.
(15) 475 samples taken from newborn infants hospitalized at "William Soler" Pediatric Teaching Hospital between January-June 1987 are studied, with the view to determine both localized and generalized sepsis.
(16) Soler is part of president of baseball operations Theo Epstein’s master plan, one that in 2014 has seen him unleash eight young Cubs, a group which he hopes will eventually help propel the franchise to a first World Series title since 1908.
(17) He has been sacked only once in his coaching career and that was in his third season at Valencia, when his relationship with the president, Juan Soler, broke down.
(18) Over in the director's box, Valencia president Juan Soler couldn't have looked more uncomfortable if Alfredo Di Stéfano had released a particularly nasty fart.
(19) Esta Soler, founder of Futures Without Violence, said in her 2013 TEDWomen talk that after activists would go to the emergency room for what the police called “a lovers’ quarrel,” they would “take our Polaroid camera, we would take her picture, we would wait 90 seconds, and we would give her the photograph.” “And she would then have the evidence she needed to go to court.
(20) Group leader Berta Soler said she has passed along information about human rights in Cuba to Vatican officials, including “evidence of ladies and activists who have been victims of repression in recent weeks”.