How to Use barmaid in a Sentence

barmaid

noun
  • The barmaid said the drinks were for takeout, but none had lids on them.
    cleveland, 21 May 2020
  • Turns out, Ian is a virgin and one of the young barmaids, Brighid, has caught his eye.
    Roxane Gay, Glamour, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Parker was a 35-year-old barmaid at the then-famous Sphinx Club.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2022
  • And the bar is still there, minus the wicker and barmaids, and now leads to an expansion with a small stage for live music.
    René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • My father was a deep-sea fisherman; my mum was a barmaid.
    National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2016
  • At first, Michael Slabaugh said, his daughter tried to get a job as a barmaid at the Spearmint Rhino, a strip club, through a friend who was an exotic dancer.
    Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • His mom was a barmaid and now works as a school receptionist while doing evening shifts in a warehouse.
    Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2020
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg plays a barmaid who becomes both Landor’s lover and his eyes in the pub, where cadets sometimes go.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Sets and types were clichéd (a Wild West saloon with a buxom barmaid who seems tough but is actually tender).
    Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Victor’s less enchanted neighbors are more likely to turn their backs on the view and crowd into a pub like the Bird in Hand, where the mood is cheery and the barmaids, Nat and Beth, are pretty and friendly.
    Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018
  • An arriving officer talked to the barmaid, who said a drunk patron was unable to walk and trying to fight people on the back patio.
    John Benson, cleveland.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Her father was a bricklayer, her mother a house cleaner and barmaid.
    Benedict Nightingale, New York Times, 15 June 2023
  • The streets at the top of Montmartre, where the absinthe flowed freely, and where Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted cancan girls and blowsy barmaids, are today immaculate and chipper.
    Tara Isabella Burton, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Fabian’s love turns out to be the beautiful Cornelia (Saskia Rosendahl), a barmaid who is studying entertainment law but hopes to be a movie star.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Ian is infatuated by the barmaid, but unsure how to approach her.
    Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 30 Oct. 2017
  • As a barmaid who is also Landor’s lover and confidant, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Patsy may be the most normal person here.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Sagal, an expert at playing earthy sexpots, is a welcome addition to the cast and story, as the barmaid/musician learns how to date a hedging new widower.
    Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The movie also features a large cast of frostily amusing supporting players, though some, like the always charming Charlotte Gainsbourg—as a barmaid who sometimes shares Landor’s bed—could have a little more to do.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
  • That includes Charlotte Gainsbourg in the underwritten part of Patsy, the sad-eyed local tavern barmaid who occasionally shares his bed.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Lancashire is something of a national treasure herself, having started out playing a lovable blonde barmaid on the long-running northern soap opera Coronation Street.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Her father found work in town as a longshoreman and as a cabdriver, and her mother was a barmaid at Dooky Chase, the celebrated New Orleans restaurant that was a frequent meeting place for local and national civil rights leaders.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 8 May 2018
  • The nurses emptied them frequently, like dutiful barmaids.
    Garnett Kilberg Cohen, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The people van Gogh rendered on canvas — the provincial French functionaries, doctors, barmaids and farmers immortalized on museum walls — are brought to uncanny life, with the voices of professional actors, some of them well known.
    A.o. Scott, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The film handles Maverick's personal stuff — wooing the barmaid, repairing his relationship with Goose's kid — while also fulfilling its promise as an action movie.
    Mark Kennedy, Chron, 12 May 2022

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