How to Use barroom in a Sentence

barroom

noun
  • Handsome, but not in a pretty way, with that barroom brawler’s mug of his.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Barkley’s unbeaten streak in barroom brawls was snapped by a guy about half his size.
    — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2017
  • There's a grocery store on one corner and a barroom on the other.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • But for all the glam, the energy of the music was straight barroom rock and roll.
    — Sarah Grant, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The first set of criticisms elides the boardroom with the barroom.
    — Elizabeth Drew, New Republic, 8 Feb. 2018
  • But only the ground floor (the barroom, the bar and lounge) is functioning.
    — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • The acoustic melody swelled into a classic dusty barroom slow-dancer.
    — Erik Ernst, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
  • There were cheap drinks, a pool table, viewing parties for sports and more in the front barroom.
    — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Wars are waged by men, battles won and lost be male soldiers, barroom brawls fought by male drunkards.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 5 June 2017
  • He was paroled in 1972 and stabbed to death four years later in a barroom fight.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 8 June 2023
  • The screen then lifted to reveal a set re-creating an old barroom.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The barroom anthem arrives at one of the busiest times of Brooks’ career.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 17 June 2019
  • In the barroom, all the glasses, decanters and bottles were a mass of broken glass on the floor.
    — Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The record is nitty-gritty garage-rock and sweaty alt-country under the haze of neon barroom lights.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The O’Casey peered across his shoulder, into the gloom of the barroom.
    — Kevin Barry, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The two are separated for a time, but reunite in the midst of a frontier barroom brawl.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Maybe nonfiction, maybe some of Abbey's barroom tales about camping.
    — Ken Layne, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • At the same time, people were doing less boozing in barrooms and avoiding movie theaters.
    — J.k. Dineen, SFChronicle.com, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Hadestown is set in a barroom at the end of the world that’s got a dance floor and a stage and two VIP seats.
    — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2019
  • Fett and the two women don’t get along well at first blush, so there’s a bit of barroom brawling and an exchange of flamethrower blasts.
    — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2020
  • But the dominant note is one of barroom familiarity with the heir to the throne.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 June 2018
  • To be fair, the singer-songwriter doesn’t actually think of it as a song about a barroom pickup.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Covid restrictions have forced him to step from behind the bar to usher guests through the narrow barroom to the rear patio.
    — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Of course, the man and woman at the barroom table could be fakes, impersonators, but this was early for that.
    — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Cohen’s gruff vocals, more spoken than sung, made the song sound better suited to a barroom floor than a cathedral.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2023
  • It will be argued endlessly in barrooms in Pittsburgh.
    — Mike Defabo, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • In the film, Ebens and his supporters maintain that the incident was a barroom brawl gone bad, not a hate crime.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 June 2022
  • For much of its history, the barroom was only for men -- except on Mardi Gras.
    — Todd A. Price, NOLA.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The barroom brawl over who is the top wrangler at Billy Bob’s Texas continues.
    — Max B. Baker, star-telegram, 13 Aug. 2017
  • Even before the pandemic, the Cadillac began to lose some of its luster as downtown’s barroom of choice.
    — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 5 Oct. 2020

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