Sentence examples for tavern from inspiring English sources

The word 'tavern' is correct and usable in written English
You can use this word when referring to a public house in which alcoholic drinks are served, usually also including food. For example: "The old tavern on 5th Street has been a fixture in the town for decades."

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tavern

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A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks; an inn.

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The 600-plus seater Tavern on the Green, which first opened in 1934, had fallen on hard times before being reopened last year by a new team.

On Thursday, after hosting a fundraiser for a Democratic representative outside Indianola, O'Malley drove 20 miles north, to play guitar at a packed tavern in Beaverdale.

It's all maroon carpets and brown wooden seats, with the feel of a saloon or a tavern, or a bad 1980s ski lodge.

The fine frontage of what was once the Cock A Hoop tavern, with varying brick courses rising to ornamental stone scrollwork, now stands like a surreal stage set, propped on pins in front of a completely unrelated building.

It is not uncommon to see pub-goers smoke pot openly on the sidewalk outside their local tavern.

"I CAN only dance when I'm drunk," confides Srijana, a 20-year-old employee of the Pussy Cat Bar and Shower, a tavern in Thamel, Kathmandu's main tourist hangout.

Surrounded though he was by corpses that "stunk mightily", Pepys retained his delight in drawing "a musique scale", smiling over a "nest of puppies", one of which had been promised to his wife, searching for an unshuttered tavern, and reading a new play, the playhouses being closed.

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You can hardly hear yourself think; but given the ceaseless round of church offices, tavern-bawling, new mechanical timekeeping and life lived out in the street, that was what it was like.

At first glance this is nice to know, but no more than a dab of colour on the hills-and-dales Shakespeare who sits alongside the court-and-tavern one.

O'Neill mined the tragedies of his own life for this depiction of a ragged collection of alcoholics in a run-down New York City tavern-hotel run by Harry Hope.

From there she surveyed a proper urban scene: the shopkeeper opposite hanging out his coils of wire, high-school children dropping wrappers on the street, the tailor retiring at midday to water his plants, Irish longshoremen swaying home from the White Horse Tavern.

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