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How to use pub in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Pub means a public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television. Example: “The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.”

Examples of pub by meaning

nounA public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes...

  • Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
  • For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2021, page 52

nounA public server.

  • Well there's private servers and then there's pubs that do their best to make sure everyone plays fair.2002, Sean C. Cunningham, “if you play on random public servers, you're an ^([sic]) tool and have no right to complain about cheaters.”, in...

More sentences with pub

  • The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.From the entry fish
  • Come on, everyone, bolt your drinks; I want to go to the next pub!From the entry bolt
  • City hall has its place, but this pub is the real heart of the town.From the entry real
  • The local pub was offering a chicken parma and a pot of beer for $8.From the entry parma
  • The old man tottered out of the pub into the street.From the entry totter
  • He had quite a thirst on and so headed to his favourite Dublin pub.From the entry thirst
  • Over time, the local pub has become something of an institution.From the entry institution
  • I love to go down the pub and knock down pints of lager.From the entry knock down
  • There are two pubs in the town; the nearer one is about a five-minute walk away.From the entry nearer
  • Jars of pickled eggs are seen in British pubs, where they are served as bar snacks.From the entry pickled egg
  • They went out for a night on the town, but it turned into a pub crawl.From the entry pub crawl
  • Jeff No-Mates spends his evenings on the computer instead of going down to the pub.From the entry No-Mates
  • There was a wee bit of an argy-bargy outside the pub.From the entry argy-bargy
  • After the fire destroyed the Bronx pub, it was rebaptized “The Bronx 2”.From the entry rebaptize
  • Coming home late and red-faced every night from the pub is not what I expected of you.From the entry red-faced
  • Jeff staggered reelingly out of the pub and tried to remember which way was home.From the entry reelingly
  • Josh had to go to hospital last night after being gay bashed outside a pub.From the entry gay bash
  • His team came second in the pub quiz and won a bottle of wine.From the entry pub quiz
  • I'd rather stay in with some harris than go to the pub after work tonight.From the entry harris
  • Who was that bird you copped off with at the pub last night?From the entry cop off with
  • We came second in the pub quiz.From the entry quiz
  • It was just the usual faces at the pub tonight.From the entry face
  • I'll see you later down the pub.From the entry down
  • Twas a queer bachram in the pub that night!From the entry queer
  • I'm going to the pub with a few mates.From the entry mate
  • I was battered last night on our pub crawl.From the entry batter
  • Each year we made a pilgrimage to New York City to visit the pub where we all first met.From the entry pilgrimage
  • They saw an angry scene outside the pub.From the entry scene
  • I'll see you at the pub sometime this evening.From the entry sometime
  • Hello, matey, just back from the pub?From the entry matey
  • The denizens of that pub are of the roughest sort.From the entry denizen
  • The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.From the entry tug
  • We're going out pubbing tonight — want to join us?From the entry pubbing
  • There's a new pub opening in Tad next week.From the entry tad
  • I can't stay too late at the pub, otherwise I'll get a load of earache from the missus.From the entry earache
  • We asked John if he wanted to come down the pub with us, but he couldn't be sacked.From the entry sacked
  • The authorities claim they turned from unemployment checks to food stamps to avoid alcoholics wasting their families' allowances in pubs.From the entry food stamp

Meaning of pub

  1. noun A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television.
  2. verb To go to one or more public houses.
  3. noun A public server.

Full definition of pub

Questions about pub in a sentence

How do you use pub in a sentence?
Pub is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The detective visited the local pubs fishing around for more information.”
What is a short sentence with pub?
“Hello, matey, just back from the pub?”
What does pub mean?
Pub means a public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pub (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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