Sentence examples for patrons down from inspiring English sources

NEW YORKERS have developed quite the taste for tropical cocktails, as you can tell from the fashionable pan-Latin restaurants, where patrons down mojitos, pisco sours and caipirinhas as if it were perpetually Carnival.

Several other newspapers, including the right-wing Le Figaro, reported the same facts with a shiver of horror, adding that the crowds had been chanting "A bas l'état, les flics et les patrons" ("Down with the state, the coppers and the bosses"), thereby domesticating the riot as part of the Parisian folklore of rebellion.

If you have the temerity to order tea at one of the nation's 150,000 coffee bars -- dark, narrow, black-and-chrome recesses where patrons down tiny cups of that inferior brew standing up, like race cars making a timed pit stop at Daytona -- it will arrive cold and bottled and spiked with chemicals that simulate lemon or peach flavorings.

Some restaurants have reported that people either do not understand or simply cannot help themselves from leaving a tip, forcing waiters to chase patrons down to return the cash whenever possible.

Imran Yousuf, a 24-year-old bouncer at Pulse, helped guide terrified patrons down a back hallway and out a door to safety during the frantic moments when Omar Mateen opened fire on the venue.

At one point in what must have been 2010, the beloved bar manager at the time ran downstairs when she heard there were some disrespectful patrons down there smoking cigarettes.

The term "shanghaied" originates here: unlucky patrons downed drug-spiked liquor and woke up on a ship at sea.

One busy lunch hour, the house was packed with patrons downing Big Macs and fries to the cabaret stylings of ÖMichiyo Fisher, who has also played Carnegie Hall.

At the Fiji Hideaway Resort on the Coral Coast, guests and staff watched the game in the restaurant together, and then staff took to the stage to dance while patrons downed cocktails at the bar.

Further down the block were torch-carrying music venues, then frequented by musicians playing classic rock covers to patrons downing buffalo wings and $12 pitchers.

When patrons sit down to dine at their small Thai restaurant, the waiter sits down a pitcher of water and Styrofoam cups.