How To Use Barroom In A Sentence

  • Together they shoot up, play soccer, get into barroom brawls, mug tourists and steal to support their habits.
  • I saw that life was not like books at all, but more like headlines-barroom brawls, a blues song sung with flatted notes.
  • The songs have a bit of a barroom sound, and there are a few blues numbers, and even one honky-tonk piano song.
  • Beat up a freshman in a barroom one night and you can be back on the court three days later.
  • If you go to mid-night Mass, and you're the devout type, don't be scandalized if it smells like a barroom, or that some hussey hardly has any clothes on under her coat. Archive 2006-12-10
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  • I didn't really care about barroom chat, but her animation made her even better to look at so I listened. FOOLS GOLD
  • Coming back, he walked through the barroom, where people waiting for the train were drinking.
  • The fight had been one of those epic barroom brawls right out of a John Wayne movie.
  • In discussing "The Night Café" 1888, a well-known depiction of a disreputable barroom in Arles—a jarring composition featuring bright yellow gaslight shining on blood-red walls—they tell us that "Vincent began his dissonant painting in a dissonant mood. A Stranger to Himself
  • Together they shoot up, play soccer, get into barroom brawls, mug tourists and steal to support their habits.
  • Until that date all Democratic factions agreed that the ward primary meeting should be held in the neutral territory of ‘Dooley's Long-Room,’ the large barroom in the Sixth Ward Hotel.
  • Grumpily and tiredly, we padded down the stairs to the barroom, and left the bill and a good tip for the tavern owner.
  • An increasing proportion of homicides in barrooms, for example, occurred during robberies, rising from one in thirty-three saloon homicides to one in seven.
  • I walked into the bar and let out a breath, slowly plodding through the barroom, ignoring the late-night barflies.
  • Harrison's new collection, "The Farmer's Daughter" - a title redolent of Merle Haggard or off-color barroom jokes or both, depending on your referents - contains three stories that feature, among their sprawling casts, several lusty adolescent boys (including one with a clubfoot and one who's a werewolf); an aged rancher, who, at 73, on his "last conscious day" of life, gingerly gropes a NYT > Home Page
  • And what makes this utter lack of substance far worse is that she can't even articulate her very simplistic thoughts without using staccato sentence fragments strung together as if she's reciting abbreviated notes illegibly scrawled on the backs of barroom napkins, and selected on-the-fly using a dart board. Bob Cesca: Famous for Being Famous: The Sarah Palin Show Is On the Air
  • This night found Blitz sitting in the middle of a huge crowd in the center of the main barroom.
  • Especially when O'Reilly is on, they're responding to brilliant TV, and if you ever rolled your eyes at Walter Cronkite's plummy version of papal infallibility, you can appreciate why O'Reilly's barroom contempt for traditional newscasts 'smugness has its appeal, even if you know his pretense that their bias is flamingly liberal, rather than blandly institutional, is a crock. The Murdoch Touch
  • No wonder, then, that an air of peculiar respectability attached itself to the "wheel" itself which revolved in a corner of the barroom night after night, whirling into opulence or penury, such as entrusted their fortunes to its revolutions. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book
  • In the front of the barroom a hooded young man sat looking over to where the three boys sat.
  • If that doesn't float your boat, there's still Prince of Persia, Frogger, Donkey Kong and dozens of other games that once graced arcades and barrooms everywhere.
  • Anbinder has filled his book with great stories of bare-knuckle fighting, barrooms, corrupt politics, and mayhem.
  • Vargas plays Death, singing in a man's suit in a barroom with a bottle of mescal.
  • With a squint of eye, a curl of lip, a twist of neck, and a body slanguage equally at home in boardrooms and barrooms, she embodies everyone she sees.
  • All of this fine acting is secondary to the stark brutality of the episode, with realistic bare-knuckle boxing, barroom brawls, and swordfights.
  • Miss Scarlett, Maw would a cotton stalk, did Ah go in a barroom a ho'house.
  • His brand of barroom rock 'n' blues caught on huge at a time when punk, new wave and metal were stripping down the pretense of prog rock.
  • Together they shoot up, play soccer, get into barroom brawls, mug tourists and steal to support their habits.
  • The larger main barroom, fronted by a large patio, is on the opposite side and faces outdoors.
  • Like two men fighting over a woman in a barroom, neither side has the woman's own humanity and freedom to heart.
  • They were all sweetness and light when they were on top, but now that their little dynasty is threatened, they have become barroom brawlers. Moore: Clinton is trying to scare voters
  • They were the same four that he'd encountered in the barroom of the First Chance saloon.
  • Most of the sailors were loafing in the barroom or lounge, playing a measured game of cards or writing letters.
  • In the barroom stood an enormous Italian jukebox - the only noticeable thing there apart from the brightly painted Gothic ceiling.
  • I wish I could be a fly on the barroom wall to hear him regale his buddies with his preceptorship experiences over a beer next week. posted by #1 Dinosaur @ 6:14 AM Archive 2007-03-01
  • Located in the trendy LoDo historic district, this hotel features one of the most beautiful Deco barrooms in the country.
  • He's an unwitting folklorist, a collector and expounder of hipster philosophy, barroom trivia, and pseudoscience.
  • It was less sleazy than a lot of other places I'd been and the barroom overlooked a view of the ocean.
  • The last two have been described by one historian as “barrooms with free or cheap entertainment offered in adjacent backrooms, halls, or theaters.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • The timing was perfect: The suburban lifestyle was taking hold, the cocktail party was replacing the urban barroom, making passable, munchable food as essential as ice cubes. One Big Table
  • There he was, mopping the deck after that freak storm that had just hit, whistling a bawdy melody that he'd heard in a barroom once, when he spotted her.
  • But in barrooms and factories and churches in Republican dominated parts of America, the reason is pretty simple.
  • A map showing the way to the Ark of the Covenant was burned into the palm of his hand when Washington grasped a medallion from the counter of a burning barroom.
  • He seems to favor the man's man… and this is clear in the male-oriented subject matter of his earliest works, which were more appropriate to a Bowery barroom than a European movie parlor.
  • She has managed to get in a barroom brawl, threatened to shoot a mayoral staffer as well as have him beaten up, and twice called a burly and bald fellow council member “Shrek” during a public hearing. FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
  • I walked into the bar and let out a breath, slowly plodding through the barroom, ignoring the late-night barflies.
  • It might be likened to a 90-pound weakling inciting a barroom brawl, between two drunkgiants, which was none of his business to begin with, and then jumping in and trying to stop their fight-to-the-death by rassling them both to the ground and holding them down until they sober up, calm down and regain their rational senses, none of which they have ever done in their lives. Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory
  • They have everything in Myrtle Beach from dark and seedy rooms where older women walk a kind of gangplank through the barroom-clubs that don't even have signs out front-to elegant, softly lit marble-lined dreamscapes full of diaphanously-gowned young women. The Morning News
  • There were decorations of Valentine's Day all over the barroom and I was led down to the basement with no explanation.
  • It was more money than I'd ever owned before, but then of course, the only money I'd ever had was a penny or two that someone had dropped in the barroom.
  • With a squint of eye, a curl of lip, a twist of neck, and a body slanguage equally at home in boardrooms and barrooms, she embodies everyone she sees.

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