Like this bachelor, before party grew serious

Usage examples of sobered up.

And this, too, he would have to explain, somehow, when Gird sobered up the next day, for all that some thought the gods spoke truly to men drowned in wine.

He was drunk when he took the fellow in, and when he sobered up he was too much a Leary to get himself out of the mess.

But if he took those drinks, he'd lose his edge, and the voice that told him he was a coward would still be there when he sobered up.

But when I came home, and sobered up, I realized that I had left a piece of myself in Cambridge.

He pictured himself presenting By's news to Miles, assuming his distraught cousin had sobered up by now.

Chances were when he sobered up he'd be embarrassed and angry that the secret about his son's death had slipped out.

When the emperor sobered up, however, he discovered that the report was not true.