How to Use barbershop in a Sentence

barbershop

noun
  • An 81-year-old man at a barbershop across the street was shot in a foot.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2022
  • This is the second year the barbershop is hosting the event.
    Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Bashir, who runs a barbershop, left school at age 13 to work.
    Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The barbershop sat at more than just a name-change crossroads.
    Rembert Browne, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The barbershop’s walls and ceiling were sprayed with blood.
    Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Davis owns a barbershop chain, The Gents Place, with her husband.
    Dallas News, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Rent a small venue; go to all the barbershops and hair salons to sell tickets.
    Eric Roberson, Billboard, 29 June 2023
  • The man had just walked out of the barbershop and a confrontation ensued in the parking lot.
    Rosana Hughes, ajc, 29 May 2022
  • From a young age, some as young as two years old, sit at the barbershop for their first haircut.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 19 July 2023
  • Michael Longfellow's character said, to which the rest of the barbershop went silent.
    Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2022
  • The coffee shop is expected to open next month just a doorstep away from the barbershop.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
  • My parents, too amused to be annoyed, gave me a little bit of money and told me to walk to the barbershop down the street.
    Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Many of us visit barbershops to get a fresh haircut, a clean shave, or to style our beard.
    Essence, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The second man injured in the shooting fled the barbershop to a nearby Chase Bank, Cook said.
    Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Sparks was a Black barbershop, half a mile from my first home, in Southwest Atlanta.
    Rembert Browne, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Robert Fogge, now in his 80s, owned a barbershop behind the Redneck Shop and watched in fear as Klan members would go in and out of the building.
    NBC News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Byrd, who owns a barbershop in Alpharetta, moved to Forsyth in 2018.
    Adrianne Murchison, ajc, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Fire and Desire, a soul food restaurant, and Kendrick's Kuts, a barbershop, were also destroyed by the fire.
    Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 27 Jan. 2023
  • After a quick visit to the barbershop, the two headed back to the woman’s home, according to the lawsuit.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • That’s why partnering with a barbershop to host the screenings made sense.
    Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2024
  • When the Tanager first opened in 1952 (in an old barbershop), the goal was not to become a commercial gallery.
    Jennifer Wilson, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Outside the barbershop where Stewart gets his hair cut, a man was shot twice and wounded by a group of kids who had tried to rob him and steal his car.
    Holly Bailey, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • As the foot pursuit continued, a call came in about a person shot inside the barbershop.
    Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
  • When the owners of Parlor on Fifth barbershop approached the duo about taking over the space next door, the idea for Mnemonic Coffee shop was born.
    Roxana Becerril, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Owner Tasha Johnson hopes the full-service barbershop feels like a space where guests can stay a while — to lounge, do some work, maybe get a manicure in the back of the shop.
    Martine Thompson, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2022
  • From barbershops to hair growth, read on for a look into all the buzz around men’s hair grooming at BeautyCon™.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 19 July 2023
  • This has to be the strangest pre-Super Bowl mash-up ever: athletes and influencers, L.A. roller skaters and a pop-up barbershop.
    Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Lentine knows the complex well as his barbershop business has been a tenant inside the complex since 1971.
    cleveland, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The shooting happened at a barbershop at 5456 West Fayetteville Road.
    Caroline Silva, ajc, 5 Oct. 2022
  • There’s a library, screening room, and Soho’s famous Cowshed Spa, with a salon that harkens back to the days of old-school barbershops.
    Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 29 Feb. 2024

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