NOUN
- tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals
How To Use public house In A Sentence
- Many's the baby in arms was cured of the thrush and many's the old man was cured of the ringworm in a public house snug by the genuine and original faith healers who would receive a bottle of stout as payment.
- In addition to her fairground business, she sells smuggled liquor to the inns and public houses on her circuit.
- The new scheme involves building 18 new homes on the site plus a partial demolition of the public house buildings and conversion of the rest into four flats.
- Thousands of public houses agreed to ban Happy Hour promotions yesterday, but campaigners said more action was needed to get a firm grip on binge drinking.
- She elopes with her 19-year-old ‘Adonis’, Charles, to a convenient public house in Chelsea, where she finally surrenders her maidenhead.
- When a woman saw two men arrive in a car outside a public house, she tried to scream a warning to the man she believed to be their target.
- Customers and staff of the Peruvian Arms public house in Penzance have appealed to the Peruvian ambassador, Ricardo Luna Mendoza, asking him to grant them special status so they can continue to light up after the ban comes into force in England. Archive 2007-04-22
- Byes," said Jem, who was troubled at the possible scandal he was about to give, "I promised not to dhrink in a public house; and shure this isn't a public house, glory be to God! My New Curate
- Not so many slags frequent this public house anymore - each time we go in there the ratio of men to women is rising.
- In the hollow of this tiny valley, lay a white public house.