Below you will find example sentences with "drink driving". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Drink Driving in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: driving
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 16
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 2 start, 8 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "drink driving" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 25.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 450 for drink driving, a first drink driving offence drysale, fined, year and man stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with dangerous driving, driving causing, careless driving, dangerous driving and careless driving, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with drink driving
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Drink driving, drug driving, driving without due care and attention, failure to stop. (13 words)
A Douglas man has been banned from the road for two years after being caught drink driving. (17 words)
Between January and September of this year, a further 707 road users were been caught drink driving. (17 words)
As the reading was low and this was a first drink-driving offence Drysale was fined £450 and given the chance to reduce his 12-month driving ban to nine months if he successfully completes a drink driving rehabilitation course at his own expense. (44 words)
A hotel manager has been ordered to pay almost $18,000 reparation to an insurance company in lump sums after admitting careless driving and drink driving - this third conviction for the latter - relating to an incident in May. (38 words)
The 41-year old Clayton South man caught driving down the wrong side of the freeway over the limit had his car impounded and is expected to be charged with drink driving and driving an unregistered vehicle. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
As the reading was low and this was a first drink-driving offence Drysale was fined £450 and given the chance to reduce his 12-month driving ban to nine months if he successfully completes a drink driving rehabilitation course at his own expense.
Drink driving, drug driving, driving without due care and attention, failure to stop.
The 41-year old Clayton South man caught driving down the wrong side of the freeway over the limit had his car impounded and is expected to be charged with drink driving and driving an unregistered vehicle.
A woman who was pulled over by police for her manner of driving was subsequently found to be drink driving after having “a couple of drinks” in a town’s nightclub.
He gave no comment when interviewed by police officers at the end of last year, but pleaded guilty to the charge of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, and drug and drink driving.
One was convicted of dangerous driving and the other was caught breaking an earlier ban and drink driving.
Ryan was banned from driving and was fined £2,250 as a consequence of drink driving in 2003.
Wassell of Barn Ground, Highnam in Gloucester, admitted drink driving and was banned from driving for two years and six months at Cheltenham Magistrates’ Court on February 24.
According to the Sentencing Council, if a person is found guilty of drink driving under the influence, sentences can range from being banned from driving, fined or even sent to prison depending on the severity.
Alexander Weston-Smith, aged 39 from Windsor Street, Rugby was disqualified from driving for 20 months and fined £450 for drink driving.
Earlier this month, Menzies, 39, appeared at Ayr Sheriff Court where she admitted to drink driving and driving without a licence and insurance in the town in October last year.
McDermott pleaded guilty, two years later, to charges including endangerment, assault, drink driving and driving without a licence.
Percival, formerly of Mill View Close, Howey, but no of no fixed abode, appeared at Llandrindod Wells Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, February 14, where he entered not guilty pleas to drink driving and driving without a licence.
The man recorded a BAC of 0.193 and was arrested for drink driving and driving while suspended.
A hotel manager has been ordered to pay almost $18,000 reparation to an insurance company in lump sums after admitting careless driving and drink driving - this third conviction for the latter - relating to an incident in May.
The driver is due to face the Brisbane Magistrates Court on April 26 charged with drink driving and unlicensed driving.
In the UK drink driving is against the law, while in the US, where the action is also outlawed, the term is drunk driving.
A Douglas man has been banned from the road for two years after being caught drink driving.
A MAN who was nearly four times the drink driving limit has been hit with a long ban.
Between January and September of this year, a further 707 road users were been caught drink driving.