Sentence examples for chic dive from inspiring English sources

That Latin flavor is evident at La Puerta (the Door), a chic dive bar with retro iconography plastered across its walls of red, yellow and blue (the national colors), where the floor fills with dancers gyrating to the sounds of Colombian rap and reggaetón.

Since the wholesale reclamation of the neighborhood began, squalor and its near neighbor, old-style urban sophistication — the chic dive bar, the grimy coffee shop where the actors all hung out and traded news about casting — have been supplanted by the bland comforts of suburban-bred retail chains and restaurants.

The Ravens returned to their roots last Sunday, bringing back the retro-chic dive-and-bomb offense that helped them reach the playoffs in 2008 and 2009.

It came through the front door of Montero's Bar and Grill in waves — first in the relentless tide of seafarers who used to pile in, drinking and fighting in a dozen languages; then in the neighborhood regulars who knitted the place into their lives; and finally in the crowds of new Brooklynites who took to Montero's for what they considered its dive chic.

Easy on the pockets and full of character, it is Dive Bar Chic at its very best.

Her outrageous costuming (a dress fashioned from meat, a jacket covered in little plush Kermit the Frog dolls) faded into a kind of recognizable dive-bar chic (denim shorts, a Bud Light crop top, cowboy hats).

Chic Choices If you prefer diving the Great Barrier Reef to regatta races, consider the stainless-steel Sector 300 Series watch, which is water-resistant up to 100 meters.

The district is a maze of dingy dives, fado bars and chic clubs, populated by just the kind of grungy cross section the complex would hope to draw.

The bar scene is not concentrated, and there are endless places to go: dives, blues joints with live music, chic nightclubs, hotel bars.

As they have grown up, the neighborhood has too, evolving from dive bars and movie rental joints to chic sushi restaurants and designer furniture emporiums.

Dive in Egypt Built in the style of a Bedouin village on a remote beach beside the Red Sea, the new, low-key Oasis Dive Resort in Marsa Alam has 50 chic chalets.