How to Use barroom in a Sentence

barroom

noun

• The O’Casey peered across his shoulder, into the gloom of the barroom.
  — Kevin Barry, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• Hadestown is set in a barroom at the end of the world that’s got a dance floor and a stage and two VIP seats.
  — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2019
• But the meeting place was a barroom, so there was that.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2021
• He was paroled in 1972 and stabbed to death four years later in a barroom fight.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• But for all the glam, the energy of the music was straight barroom rock and roll.
  — Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2021
• The first set of criticisms elides the boardroom with the barroom.
  — Elizabeth Drew, New Republic, 8 Feb. 2018
• But only the ground floor (the barroom, the bar and lounge) is functioning.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 15 May 2018
• In the barroom, all the glasses, decanters and bottles were a mass of broken glass on the floor.
  — Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• The barroom anthem arrives at one of the busiest times of Brooks’ career.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 17 June 2019
• Handsome, but not in a pretty way, with that barroom brawler’s mug of his.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
• There's a grocery store on one corner and a barroom on the other.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• There were cheap drinks, a pool table, viewing parties for sports and more in the front barroom.
  — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• It’s like a barroom open-mic jam session, but outdoors and without the booze.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2021
• Barkley’s unbeaten streak in barroom brawls was snapped by a guy about half his size.
  — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• The two are separated for a time, but reunite in the midst of a frontier barroom brawl.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 Mar. 2020
• The fight over control of Billy Bob’s Texas goes to court Tuesday in a barroom brawl that could lead to the sale of the world’s largest honky-tonk on the auction block.
  — Max B. Baker, star-telegram.com, 26 June 2017
• In the film, Ebens and his supporters maintain that the incident was a barroom brawl gone bad, not a hate crime.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 June 2022
• Fett and the two women don’t get along well at first blush, so there’s a bit of barroom brawling and an exchange of flamethrower blasts.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2020
• In 2015, he was sentenced to serve four months in jail for his part in a Wisconsin barroom stabbing.
  — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 1 Feb. 2021
• The acoustic melody swelled into a classic dusty barroom slow-dancer.
  — Erik Ernst, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
• But the dominant note is one of barroom familiarity with the heir to the throne.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 June 2018
• The barroom brawl over who is the top wrangler at Billy Bob’s Texas continues.
  — Max B. Baker, star-telegram, 13 Aug. 2017
• Earlier in the day, Binger likened the threat the victims posed to Rittenhouse to that of combatants in a barroom brawl.
  — NBC News, 15 Nov. 2021
• Covid restrictions have forced him to step from behind the bar to usher guests through the narrow barroom to the rear patio.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
• Costanzo, on the other hand, is high and pristine where Bond is low and dirty, precise where Bond slides like a high heel on a barroom floor.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2021
• Wars are waged by men, battles won and lost be male soldiers, barroom brawls fought by male drunkards.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 5 June 2017
• The screen then lifted to reveal a set re-creating an old barroom.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• Of course, the man and woman at the barroom table could be fakes, impersonators, but this was early for that.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• Cohen’s gruff vocals, more spoken than sung, made the song sound better suited to a barroom floor than a cathedral.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2023
• Social media lowered the level of discourse from barroom debates to street brawls.
  — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Aug 2024