How to Use barroom in a Sentence
barroom
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The O’Casey peered across his shoulder, into the gloom of the barroom.
—Kevin Barry, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
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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
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But the meeting place was a barroom, so there was that.
—BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2021
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He was paroled in 1972 and stabbed to death four years later in a barroom fight.
—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 8 June 2023
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But for all the glam, the energy of the music was straight barroom rock and roll.
—Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2021
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The first set of criticisms elides the boardroom with the barroom.
—Elizabeth Drew, New Republic, 8 Feb. 2018
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But only the ground floor (the barroom, the bar and lounge) is functioning.
—Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 15 May 2018
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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
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The barroom anthem arrives at one of the busiest times of Brooks’ career.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 17 June 2019
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Handsome, but not in a pretty way, with that barroom brawler’s mug of his.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
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There's a grocery store on one corner and a barroom on the other.
—Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 12 Feb. 2018
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There were cheap drinks, a pool table, viewing parties for sports and more in the front barroom.
—Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 23 Nov. 2020
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It’s like a barroom open-mic jam session, but outdoors and without the booze.
—BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2021
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Barkley’s unbeaten streak in barroom brawls was snapped by a guy about half his size.
—David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2017
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The two are separated for a time, but reunite in the midst of a frontier barroom brawl.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 Mar. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The acoustic melody swelled into a classic dusty barroom slow-dancer.
—Erik Ernst, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
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But the dominant note is one of barroom familiarity with the heir to the throne.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 June 2018
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The barroom brawl over who is the top wrangler at Billy Bob’s Texas continues.
—Max B. Baker, star-telegram, 13 Aug. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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Wars are waged by men, battles won and lost be male soldiers, barroom brawls fought by male drunkards.
—Sarah Rense, Esquire, 5 June 2017
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The screen then lifted to reveal a set re-creating an old barroom.
—Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
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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
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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
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Social media lowered the level of discourse from barroom debates to street brawls.
—Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023
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