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
• The role of the barmaid, therefore, is not only one of service but of performance.
  — Hazlitt, 21 June 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024