barroom

Example Sentences

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Ely, beloved for barroom poetry that punctured country music’s mythmaking, was a ready collaborator across genres.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

The followers are in fact the key to totalitarian movements, without whom the charismatic leader would simply be a barroom bloviator.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025

Temnikova recruited her husband to carry anchovies on the plane from Tallinn, which will be served as appetizers at one of the nightly dinners held in the house’s stately barroom.

From New York Times • May 2, 2024

She’s never in a headline about yachts, barroom dustups or traffic offenses.

From Washington Times • May 23, 2023

And contrary to countless barroom conversations, the law of large numbers doesn’t imply the gambler’s fallacy: that a head is more likely after a string of tails.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos