How to Use public house in a Sentence

public house

noun
  • The parish hall on Sunday nights was most like a bar, an actual public house, a place to go, a habit.
    Sam Sifton, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Some of them opened public houses on the merits of their reputation; others took to the stage or the circus.
    Longreads, 8 May 2018
  • This was a public house in the truest sense—the kind of establishment that is increasingly rare in American life.
    Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Bristol Pub Crawl tours taverns and public houses and pours four alcoholic drinks, one at each pub.
    Shonda Talerico Dudlicek, chicagotribune.com, 13 May 2018
  • Where is the reader to turn for more information about the travesty birth, staged in a public house in 1810, in which, with the assistance of a pair of bellows, a man was delivered of a Cheshire cheese?
    Caleb Crain, New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • The pub is owned by Amber Taverns, who reopened in four years ago after the building was previously a public house but had been vacant for a number of years.
    Kate Samuelson / London, Time, 4 May 2018
  • Project developer Thompson Thrift announced that its latest tenant will be the Havana Lounge, a cigar and whiskey public house.
    John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2018
  • According to the Morning Advertiser, the U.K.’s leading trade newspaper for the pub sector, two public houses now close their doors for good every day.
    Kate Samuelson / London, Time, 4 May 2018
  • At this time, public houses were gathering places for residents and travelers.
    Courant Community, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Scruton is a philosopher and conservative thinker of great renown, and he had been put on a government commission dedicated to the building of more beautiful public houses.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Much like Captain Kidd and Johanna, the quartet moves from place to place, navigating saloons, hotels, dance halls, public houses and other places trying to string together a meager wage.
    New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Customers can now fill out another Metra survey specifically on the possible changes, which is available online if people cannot attend the other public houses held in other municipalities this month.
    Linda Girardi, Aurora Beacon-News, 2 Feb. 2018

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