barfly

Example Sentences

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George Wendt, the actor best known for his starring role as perpetual barfly Norm Peterson through the full run of the NBC sitcom ‘Cheers,’ has died at 76.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025

They’ve endured agonies he’ll never understand — and a barfly like him can’t deliver a cheers that will set things right.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2022

And by the end of the fourth "She-Hulk" episode, "Is This Not Real Magic?" the mononymous sorcerer has an adorable barfly handle: "Wongers."

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2022

He occasionally won meatier parts, such as the Harvard-educated barfly Willie Oban in a 1973 screen version of O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2018

He had begun to dress more neatly and speak more grammatically; to look and act more like a spaceman and less like a barfly.

From Space Viking by Piper, H. Beam