How to Use barmaid in a Sentence

barmaid

noun
  • The barmaid said the drinks were for takeout, but none had lids on them.
    — cleveland, 21 May 2020
  • Turns out, Ian is a virgin and one of the young barmaids, Brighid, has caught his eye.
    — Roxane Gay, Glamour, 29 Oct. 2017
  • His mom was a barmaid and now works as a school receptionist while doing evening shifts in a warehouse.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2020
  • The role of the barmaid, therefore, is not only one of service but of performance.
    — Hazlitt, 21 June 2023
  • Parker was a 35-year-old barmaid at the then-famous Sphinx Club.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2022
  • Parker was a 35-year-old barmaid at the then-famous Sphinx Club.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2024
  • And the bar is still there, minus the wicker and barmaids, and now leads to an expansion with a small stage for live music.
    — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Ian is infatuated by the barmaid, but unsure how to approach her.
    — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Her mother, Emma, was a barmaid and her father, John, worked the press for a newspaper.
    — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg plays a barmaid who becomes both Landor’s lover and his eyes in the pub, where cadets sometimes go.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The two young women arrive at their barmaid jobs with a sense of palpable disorientation.
    — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
  • An arriving officer talked to the barmaid, who said a drunk patron was unable to walk and trying to fight people on the back patio.
    — John Benson, cleveland.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The painting’s subject, a barmaid who in real life was named Suzon, stands at the center looking blankly into space.
    — Vulture, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Sets and types were clichéd (a Wild West saloon with a buxom barmaid who seems tough but is actually tender).
    — Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 19 Nov. 2020
  • His father, Bertram, was a bus driver, and his mother, Gladys (Lay) Pinder, was a barmaid.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Dennis is egged on by his barmaid Rosa, a crime drama superfan, played by Carolina Bécquer.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 8 June 2026
  • But when tourists start turning up dead, he’s reluctantly drawn back into detective work — egged on by his barmaid Rosa, a crime drama superfan.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Sagal, an expert at playing earthy sexpots, is a welcome addition to the cast and story, as the barmaid/musician learns how to date a hedging new widower.
    — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Dec. 2019
  • At first, Michael Slabaugh said, his daughter tried to get a job as a barmaid at the Spearmint Rhino, a strip club, through a friend who was an exotic dancer.
    — Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • For good measure, Ohm also traumatizes the barmaid, Fiona (Florence Ordesh), by the end of his first night’s stay.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Fabian’s love turns out to be the beautiful Cornelia (Saskia Rosendahl), a barmaid who is studying entertainment law but hopes to be a movie star.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The second track on the LP told the story of a heartbroken barmaid pining after a sailor who refused to give up his nomadically maritime lifestyle for her.
    — Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • As a barmaid who is also Landor’s lover and confidant, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Patsy may be the most normal person here.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Some feel that the movie’s slide into sentiment in its final scenes, with a young German barmaid singing a folk song to an inn full of battle-scarred soldiers, doesn’t quite match the caustic nature of the rest of the story.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
  • In the book, Otis is also devoted to a clever barmaid who is not afraid to confront arrogant occupying British soldiers known as Red Coats.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Lancashire is something of a national treasure herself, having started out playing a lovable blonde barmaid on the long-running northern soap opera Coronation Street.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2018
  • My introduction that begins the book Alcatraz, from which the poems are excerpted, has a poem about my maternal grandmother working as a barmaid, and serving drinks to iron foundrymen.
    — Robert Minhinnick, The Dial, 2 Oct. 2025
  • That includes Charlotte Gainsbourg in the underwritten part of Patsy, the sad-eyed local tavern barmaid who occasionally shares his bed.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Victor’s less enchanted neighbors are more likely to turn their backs on the view and crowd into a pub like the Bird in Hand, where the mood is cheery and the barmaids, Nat and Beth, are pretty and friendly.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The film handles Maverick's personal stuff — wooing the barmaid, repairing his relationship with Goose's kid — while also fulfilling its promise as an action movie.
    — Mark Kennedy, Chron, 12 May 2022

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