How to Use barkeep in a Sentence

barkeep

noun
  • You are invited to vote once per hour for your favorite barkeep.
    — Hannah Drown, cleveland.com, 8 June 2017
  • Many customers are on a first-name basis with lots of banter with the barkeeps.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Return to the tavern and the barkeep will direct you upstairs, asking you to take the drinks up with you.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
  • In person, Kasich is like a manic barkeep who talks too much but also makes some sense.
    — Lisa Miller, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Sakhyiuk started work as a barkeep only the month before the war began.
    — Laura Kingstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2023
  • There were no masks among the patrons; the barkeep scrutinized documents while pulling on the tap.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
  • The head hung on a fence near the barn for a year until Herndon was telling the local barkeep about his unusual score.
    — Pj Delhomme, Outdoor Life, 1 Jan. 2020
  • The rotating crew of barkeeps can guide you through a tasting before selling you a bottle of your favorite.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2019
  • An absinthe fountain sits prominently between guests and barkeeps and bottles crowd narrow shelves on the bar wall.
    — Stephanie Burt, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 May 2018
  • When the barkeep made the approach with my pathetic offer of another round, Bird shook his head.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The pace is brisk; in mere pages, Gordon has found a bad job, a grim apartment and a friendly barkeep called Janice.
    — Rumaan Alam, New York Times, 21 May 2024
  • The lobby is all polished rosewood with travertine marble floors, a grand piano, a glass pool table, and a barkeep in a white tux.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The barkeep pointed out a pair of women, so Melvin sent over some drinks and invited them to join in the festivities.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 July 2017
  • Some of Philly’s best barkeeps are offering booze-less alternatives.
    — Oona Goodin-Smith, Philly.com, 13 July 2018
  • There are many tales of foreign travelers unwittingly taking a seat at this table and being shooed away by the barkeep.
    — Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Sensing a marketing scheme, the barkeep got Herndon to bring in the antlers to show off in his window and hopefully attract thirsty hunters.
    — Pj Delhomme, Outdoor Life, 1 Jan. 2020
  • In another close call, a British barkeep refused to serve him past the mandatory closing time despite his pleadings for just one more drink.
    — Terry Spencer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Only the most historically minded barkeep is likely to know how to make one today—or even that there used to be a cocktail named Daisy.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 22 Feb. 2017
  • Guests can ask servers and barkeeps for a credit card-like loyalty card, which is then activated on Trick Dog’s website.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Without asking permission, the barkeep swipes the driver's license through a card reader and the device flashes a green light approving the order.
    — Kim Zetter, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2004
  • Or crash in at closing time on your birthday and the barkeep who knows your name will pour you and your lady a glass of champagne — quite literally what happened to Joe Mario last week.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Their father died of cancer before they were born, and their mother, Nora, works simultaneously as the town barkeep and the town therapist.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
  • The Florentine entrepreneur Francesco Datini was the son of a barkeep.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Suzanne, the barkeep, instructed us on the method involved in affixing legal tender roughly 10 feet up without benefit of a ladder.
    — Cirrus Wood, The Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2019
  • James Franco has a duel role as twin brothers Vincent, a rare honest barkeep with connections, and Frankie, a reckless wildcard.
    — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Stone’s Throw, the Montrose bar owned by one of the most prolific and successful restaurateurs and barkeeps on Westheimer, has closed.
    — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2020
  • As an essayist and editor, Fitzgerald had long served as a kind of genial barkeep of the literary internet — an avuncular, boozy presence with killer taste in books.
    — Robert Moor, Curbed, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The 1930s vintage of the place might prompt you to pick a Martini, a Manhattan, or an Old Fashioned; barkeeps will do right by all of the above.
    — Alex Van Buren, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The town’s overflowing with charming Midwest eccentrics, including a cocky mayor (Henry Winkler) and a welcoming barkeep (Lena Headey).
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • ViceVersa, now in residency through May in the hotel lobby, is awash in luminescent ambers and leather tones, with acclaimed barkeep Valentino Longo pouring digestivos, bubbly spritzes, and Italian wines.
    — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026

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