Examples of “winy” in a Sentence

adj Tasting or smelling like wine.

• The sleeve-buttons were topazes, winy-yellow, lightly set in crinkly gold. — Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy (1926)

adj Relating to the effects of drinking wine; especially, winedrunk.

• I thought how lucky it was I had started practising birth control during the day, because in my winey state that night I would never have bothered to perform the delicate and necessary operation. — Sylvia Plath (1963)
• This, however, did not altogether account for the winey intoxication of happiness that filled her body. — Arthur Stringer (1924)