Sentence examples for In patrons from inspiring English sources
He makes his living pretending to be a deaf-mute, wandering from café to café and playing the harmonica in patrons' faces until they give him a coin.
Rock Hard Gym is not a sleek and shiny temple of sweat, coaxing in patrons with air-conditioning, lap pools and rock-climbing walls.
Journalists pointed video cameras in patrons' faces, asking them to describe the demise of an institution in 20 words or less.
"It will never be what it used to be," said Mr. Eaves, who booked bands that packed in patrons — up to 1,000 people when 140 was the legal capacity.
Three paces in, patrons find themselves facing a high wall of clear plastic cubes stocking boxes of salty and sweet snacks with names like tum tum and nylon sev ($4 and $5 a pound).
Asked about the New Jersey Philharmonic's 10-year-old house concert series, Intimate Evening, put on quarterly in patrons' homes as small fund-raisers, Mr. Blasi said: "Now I heard of them.
Social secretaries made appointments, cultivated the Rolodex, managed correspondence and generally kept their plugged-in patrons up to date with the goings-on of all their friends and associates.
Naturally, as the industry grows, and competition stiffens, each company will look for an edge to bring in more patrons.
Done in by patrons, done in by staff, done in by government.
A second influential factor is the role of credit and debt, which is inherent in patron-client relationships.
Mr. Sullivan contended that liquid drugs are never sold inside clubs, but brought in by patrons.
