honky-tonk
Example Sentences
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At least on weekends, however, the audience doesn’t look all that different from one honky-tonk to the next; West Village Girls and Wall Street guys abound.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Her band, CC and the Boys, has also played at Lucinda’s and nearly every other honky-tonk in town.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
You won't find him on Broadway or in the city's famous honky-tonk music bars.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025
He’s kicking off the KFM Karaoke Country Revue, a monthly celebration where honky-tonk culture meets the queer community to toast, twang and tumble through songs like old friends in a Garth Brooks ballad.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025
On the jukebox, Kitty Wells was singing about married men and honky-tonk angels.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
