roadhouse
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The next track, “Excited Delirium,” a high-speed roadhouse rave-up about unlawful search and seizure, is defiant and angry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Some at the roadhouse rally wore cowboy hats.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
On 14 December 1941, Almonds and another SAS soldier, Jock Lewes, who would be killed on a later mission, attacked an Italian roadhouse and a fort at Mersa Brega in Libya.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025
Gen Z’s recent discovery of 100-year-old Barney’s Beanery has made the late-night roadhouse as hard to get into as the spots the new crowd was seemingly trying to avoid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
It had taken Nina less than an hour to discover that most of the prison wagons passed by a roadhouse known as the Warden’s Waystation on the route to the Ice Court.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
In contrast to strait-laced Seattle, where suds stopped flowing at 2 a.m. and never on Sundays, Georgetown’s unregulated taverns, eateries and roadhouses were open round-the-clock, serving laborers the hoppy product of their labors.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
But there was nothing glamorous about being a rock ’n’ roll musician playing nonstop in bars and roadhouses on a circuit centered on Ontario, Quebec and U.S. cities like Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2022
Berry puts on gigs in these far-flung roadhouses.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019
As a teen-ager, Guy quit pumping gas and learned his craft in roadhouses around Baton Rouge.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019
The Propaganda Chief had added advertising at numerous new roadhouses along the way, and unwary shades traveling hellward gazed at beautiful scenes of lush vegetation instead of a dreary expanse like the Texas Panhandle.
From Satan and the Comrades by Ralph Bennitt
