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How to use barman in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Barman means a man who works in a bar. Example: “The barman was a big, beefy guy with his sleeves rolled up and tattoos on his arms.”

Examples of barman by meaning

nounA man who works in a bar.

  • “Up from London, are we?” the barman asks politely.2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013

More sentences with barman

  • The barman was a big, beefy guy with his sleeves rolled up and tattoos on his arms.From the entry beefy
  • Let's stop at Finnigan's. The barman pulls a good pint.From the entry pull
  • Put this round on my tab, please, barman.From the entry tab
  • After several drinks, I confided my problems to the barman.From the entry confide
  • Six years of a happy relationship, and then she had the nerve to cheat on me with a barman!From the entry cheat on
  • The barman glanced around in search of uncollected glasses.From the entry uncollected
  • A couple of pints please, barman.From the entry pint
  • They pulled up two bar stools and looked around the room as the barman relieved the whisky optic of its contents.2018, Denise Mina, Exile. From the entry optic
  • The barman is a professional, and pretends not to be shocked to see his backward and filthy visitor.2012, Aimery Thomas, Primae Noctis, page 313. From the entry outdweller
  • “People are so dam’ sensitive about colour around here that you can’t even ask a barman for a jigger of rum.1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 13, in Diamonds Are Forever. From the entry jigger
  • "Pint!" he added aggressively to the barman.1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four. From the entry wallop
  • The barman vaulted over the bar and hauled him off and went boof! – right in the Boer's chest, and down he went.2011, Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town. From the entry boof
  • Brett did not turn up, so about quarter to six I went down to the bar and had a Jack Rose with George the barman.1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society, published 2008, page 66. From the entry Jack Rose
  • Johnson waited for an age while the barmen tossed bottles back and forth, poured luminous liquids into glasses from great heights, and fannied about with fruit and frivolities.2007, Philip Bryer, None of Your Business, →ISBN, page 151. From the entry fanny about
  • Suffice it to say that the barman physically hustled him towards the door, as Gus struggled and shouted, "I hope you die roaring for a priest."1996, Marian Keyes, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Poolbeg, →ISBN, page 654. From the entry die roaring for a priest

Meaning of barman

  1. noun A man who works in a bar.

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Questions about barman in a sentence

How do you use barman in a sentence?
Barman is used as a noun. For example: “The barman was a big, beefy guy with his sleeves rolled up and tattoos on his arms.”
What is a short sentence with barman?
“A couple of pints please, barman.”
What does barman mean?
Barman means a man who works in a bar.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barman (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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