Bowery

[ UK /bˈa‍ʊəɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈbaʊɝi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts
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How To Use Bowery In A Sentence

  • a bowery lane
  • He paid as much attention to the floorboards or the tangle of buddleia in the yard below as he would to a woman's belly, Leigh Bowery's feminine bulk, Bruce Bernard's stoic drunkard's poise, Lord Goodman's vanity, Sue the Benefits Supervisor's affected boredom. Lucian Freud's perverse depictions of magnificent muck
  • In the hushes of the Bowery Ballroom, expect to capture every nuance. A Little Older, but No Less Noisy
  • She started well as a figurante in a comic opera company up-town, but from that she dropped to a female minstrel troupe in the Bowery, and now, Lewy Tusch told Cordelia, she was "tooing ter skirt-tance in ter pickernic parks for ter sick-baby fund, ant passin 'ter hat arount afterwarts. Different Girls
  • That could potentially make the difference between a sell-out gig at Madison Square Garden and a half-filled room at the Bowery Ballroom. Amy Edelman: Indie Authors: How to Build a Bieber-Size Audience
  • The Bowery is well on its way to gentrification.
  • And Surf Avenue wuz full, and what they called the Bowery of Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands
  • The Bowery, a street in lower Manhattan, runs north for about a mile from Chatham Square to Cooper Square.
  • In response, he created Bowery Derelicts - a group of drunken bums, inspired by people he saw every day across from his apartment.
  • With considerable relish, Asbury chronicles the history of the multitude of gangs who fought to control the streets of the Bowery, Hell's Kitchen and the Five Points.
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