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
She found herself gravitating toward the roadhouse instead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
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
The group performed in and around Fort Payne until 1973, when the cousins decided to pursue music full time and started working in bars and roadhouses throughout the South.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
Berry puts on gigs in these far-flung roadhouses.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019
Long before social media and music venues became common homes for standups, Stanhope was building his audience on MySpace and in roadhouses.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 16, 2016
On the verandas of funny little gray roadhouses with dripping red roofs officers sat over their breakfast coffee.
From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
