Sentence examples for closed pub from inspiring English sources

The school sits in the middle of Skerne Park, a council estate on the southern edge of Darlington, opposite a closed pub, a kebab shop and a Londis grocery with a poster on the door: "One child at a time.

I saw you — I loved you so, loved your body with such tenderness" is a little like seeing them all French kiss outside a closed pub, and yes, it's a little gauche of Liz to publish hers – but that's overshadowed by the joy she must take in sharing them.

Every closed pub is the gravestone of a dead community.

Handsome on the one hand – though morphing into Hackney-on-sea with Swedish coffee kiosks – but on the other: empty shop fronts, closed pubs, 64% Brexit.

These are the washed out sub-urban spaces littered with tatty precincts and permanently closed pubs, the places that hum with missed chances and the same regrets.

The theory is that closing pubs at 11pm encourages people to drink faster.

It is a grassroots service which, in an era of closing pubs, post offices and libraries, is now without precedent.

Around 31 pubs close every week, an acceleration of the long-term trend, but Billingham warned of the dangers of "getting over-emotional" about pubs, saying: "We are only closing pubs because people don't want to go to them".

But in doing so it ran up hefty debts, and the credit crunch and the smoking ban hit its business hard and forced it to reverse its strategy and sell or close pubs to reduce its borrowings.

These deals are utterly irresponsible and are ripping the heart out of community life by closing pubs".

When the court is closed, the pub is closed.