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How to use bartender in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Bartender means one who tends a bar or pub; a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar. Example: “The bartender will have to ID you before serving you a drink.”

Examples of bartender by meaning

nounOne who tends a bar or pub; a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar.

  • They weren't all just sexpats and drifters and former disgraced officers or old bartenders, none of which he should have mentioned.2010, Erich R. Sysak, Water Heart

More sentences with bartender

  • The bartender will have to ID you before serving you a drink.From the entry id
  • The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now it's all watery.From the entry cut
  • I recently applied to the tavern for a job as a bartender.From the entry apply
  • The bartender decided to comp their drinks to make up for the earlier incident.From the entry comp
  • The congenial bartender makes the Hog’s Head an inviting place to hang out during the weekends.From the entry congenial
  • The bartender Frisbeed a cardboard coaster to the patron at the end of the bar.From the entry frisbee
  • That new bartender has got my name on her. Hands off!From the entry have one's name on
  • The bartender said he's not allowed to let me leave with a roadie.From the entry roadie
  • Bartenders usually know their regulars by name.From the entry regular
  • The bartender sometimes underpoured for customers who did not tip.From the entry underpour
  • He introduced me to the bartender, Michel, dark and foxishly thin.2014, Hilary Reyl, Lessons in French: A Novel, page 63. From the entry foxishly
  • The bartender makes exotic tropical martinis, such as the mangotini, that you can sip by the pool.2014 August 19, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's Caribbean 2015, Fodor's Travel, →ISBN. From the entry mangotini
  • Faux 19th-century bartenders in sleeve garters and baroque facial hair ply their trade in pre-Prohibition bars.2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic. From the entry cloche
  • That might explain the disparity in drink prices as bartenders added their own gratuity to the bill.2010, Scott S. Ellis, Madame Vieux Carré: the French Quarter in the twentieth century, page 146. From the entry nontipper
  • Freeman was curious about the spherification kit the company had put together for bartenders.2008 February 20, Pete Wells, “Eat 300 and Say ‘Spherification’”, in New York Times. From the entry spherification
  • She was a people person, a bartender for years, a Jill of all trades.2006, Alice Sharpe, Duplicate Daughter, Harlequin, →ISBN. From the entry jill of all trades
  • The bartender tells me in a nice way they don't have unleaded coffee.1999, Chuck Fair, Deviants, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry unleaded
  • Another BWMT member said bars have no open advertising for bartenders and no affirmative action policy.1982 April 10, David Morris, “Highly Segregated”, in Gay Community News, page 2. From the entry old boy network
  • Bartender: “O.K., O.K., what’ll you have?” Girl: “A Scotch and wa-wa.”1968 October 11, “Verrry Interesting . . . But Wild”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01…. From the entry wa-wa
  • The bartender called "Good-night" as Dingwell went out of the swinging doors.1917, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 3, in The Sheriff's Son. From the entry hit the hay
  • Clinton, playing a bartender, was told by an SNL cast member that she was "really easy to talk to."2024 November 3, “Harris joins line of politicians appearing on 'Saturday Night Live'”, in Reuters. From the entry SNL
  • Popping down a cork coaster, the bartender delivered Alan's next drink and plucked the empties and undrinkables as the music changed.2018, Craig Hallam, Old Haunts. From the entry undrinkable
  • When the bartender comes back to take away our empty plates, I realize I haven’t tasted a single bite.2017, Tessa Bailey, Follow, [self-published], →ISBN, page 60. From the entry heart eyes
  • His friend’s eyes had already wandered to the bar, where the bartender was pouring vodka into a row of shotglasses.2017, Kate Jessica Raphael, chapter 3, in Murder Under the Fig Tree (Palestine Mysteries; 2), Berkeley, Calif.: She Writes Press, →ISBN…. From the entry shotglass
  • It was empty except for the fat old bartender and a few old rubadubs on the stools at the bar.2014, Nolan Whyte, Among The Humans. From the entry rubadub
  • Watch a bartender trying to borrow a simple, cheap fruit-knife from the kitchen and you'll see what I mean.2009 September 16, Charlie Sorrel, “Chef’s Travel Bag: A Kitchen On Your Back”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications…. From the entry precious
  • "This do it?" he asked the bartender, who nodded.2003, Barry Gifford, Thomas A. McCarthy, The rooster trapped in the reptile room, page 266. From the entry liplessly
  • I've been an actor, a bartender, a maitre d', and a hustler, without much success at any of them.2002, Vincent Lardo, Lawrence Sanders, McNally's Chance. From the entry been to the rodeo
  • He likes the way the bartender keeps changing his green backs into four silver George Washingtons for the juke.2001, Gerry LaFemina, “The Translation of Want”, in Zarathustra in Love: Prose Poems, Saginaw, Mich.: Mayapple Press, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry George Washington
  • (Ben Sanderson, speaking to a bartender) -- "Please, serve me today, and I'll never come in here again.1995, Leaving Las Vegas, 00:10:40. From the entry 86
  • "Where's the picture of my mother-in-law?" he barks in midtale, and a bartender hustles off to look for it.1988 January 22, Jack Hayes, “Pizza Man”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry midtale
  • Some straight people, like the bartenders at other Combat Zone bars come in here, but they're OK, and no one minds.1976 February 7, Rose Flower, quoting Jimmy McGrath, “Playland: The Friendliest Place In Town”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number…. From the entry combat zone
  • The bartender looked at her malevolently for a moment, shook his head, and walked away to mix the drink.1972, Evan Hunter, Every Little Crook and Nanny, page 132. From the entry cassis
  • As soon as the bartender saw them he called out, ‘Three espressi?’, half way between an inquiry and a flat statement.1967, Renato Amato, The Full Circle of the Travelling Cuckoo, Whitcombe & Tombs, published 1968, page 45. From the entry espressi
  • “Don’t you mean a martini?” asked the bartender.1959, The Reader’s Digest, volume 75, page 32. From the entry martinus
  • The bartender was leaning across a guestless bar.1954, Charles A. Smythwick, False measure. From the entry guestless
  • He heard Carling addressing a remark to the bartender: “Give him a bromo-seltzer.” Amory shook his head indignantly.1920 April, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book II (The Education of a…. From the entry bromo-seltzer
  • Much of the best stock in the boozorium was missing, and the bartender telephoned to police headquarters that Mrs.1901, Unattributed, “Caught His Pal”, in The Duluth Evening Herald. From the entry boozorium
  • I slide onto the stool across from the bartender and glance at the fine collection of liquor assembled across a 4-tiered shelf.2020, Alesha Escobar, The Wayward Wizard, Creative Alchemy, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry unicorn puke

Meaning of bartender

  1. noun One who tends a bar or pub; a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar.

Full definition of bartender

Questions about bartender in a sentence

How do you use bartender in a sentence?
Bartender is used as a noun. For example: “The bartender will have to ID you before serving you a drink.”
What is a short sentence with bartender?
“Bartenders usually know their regulars by name.”
What does bartender mean?
Bartender means one who tends a bar or pub; a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bartender (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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