sober's Usage Examples:

By nature it is a sun-steeped southern region, the home of the vine and olive, of the minstrelsy of the Provençal and the exuberance of Tartarin, distinct from the colder and more sober north.

The compassion in his voice surprised her and she glanced up at his sober face, tears coursing down her own.

She shook her head soberly.

The friend of St Teresa, St Peter of Alcantara, and of all the noble minds of Spain of his day, no one among the three hundred Spanish mystics excels Luis de Granada in the beauty of a didactic style, variety of illustration and soberness of statement.

His expression was sober as he placed a hand on the counter on each side of her.

"Under the Roman peace they lost their warlike and nomadic habits, and were a sober, acquisitive, orderly people, wholly intent on trade and agriculture (Strabo xvi.

Damian sobered, troubled by the news.

His personality was quiet and sober.

We are accustomed to find the legendary and the miraculous gathering, like a halo, around the early history of religious leaders, until the sober truth runs the risk of being altogether neglected for the glittering and edifying falsehood.

For no philosophy which travesties the real course of history and distorts the moral facts is likely to commend itself to the sober judgment or mankind however brilliant be its exposition or ingenious its arguments.

An unhappy propensity to duelling, the origin in Arkansas of the bowie-knife, - from an alleged use of which Arkansas received the nickname, which it has always retained, of the " toothpick state," - and other backwoods associations gave the state a reputation which to some extent has survived in spite of many years of sober history.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

Synonyms:

unintoxicated, drug-free, cold sober, dry, stone-sober, teetotal, uninebriated,

Antonyms:

stay, humorless, sweet, sugary, intoxicated,