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• I recently applied to the tavern for a job as a bartender.From the entry apply
• Dusty left the taproom of the tavern and wandered into the small arcade in back.From the entry taproom
• Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”From the entry seasoning
• This particular tavern looked larger than the typical corner pub seen all over the British Isles.2019, Richard Parke-Taylor, Memories Best Forgotten, →ISBN. From the entry corner pub
• They are not the fries of your neighborhood diner, tavern, or burgeria.2015, Mitch Broder, “Pommes Frites”, in New York’s One-Food Wonders: A Guide to the Big Apple’s Unique Single-Food Spots, Globe Pequot…. From the entry burgeria
• No longer will that place be a tavern or noisy capital city.2013 November 8, Matt Purslow, “World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor catapults all players to level 90, features Outland pre-fiery…. From the entry warcraft
• The man was a bruiser, the sort who'd learned his science in tavern brawls.2000, Stephanie Laurens, A Secret Love, Avon Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 349. From the entry brawn
• And as for me, I went to a tavern and partook of borsh.1916, Rothay Reynolds, chapter X, in My Slav Friends, London: Mills & Boon, […], →OCLC, pages 205–206. From the entry borsh
• How're you doin'" "You bet!" "Oh, sure!" barkeep word slop that's the ruination of decent tavern talk almost everywhere.2010, Gary Cahill, “Corner of River and Rain”, in Best Genre Short Stories Anthology #2, page 11. From the entry beer stick
• That ruled out most of the taverns on the Morpork side of the river, where they were very well known.1989, Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld; 8), London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, page 85. From the entry inconspicuosity
• We mummered taverns and restaurants and the airport (the dead man went round and round on the luggage carousel).1988, Chris Brookes, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Institute of Social and Economic Research, A Public Nuisance: A History of the…. From the entry mummer
• Though poverty lurked in tenements and alleys, joviality flourished in taverns, foodstalls, bawdyhouses, odeions, the homes of the well-to-do.1987, Poul Anderson, Karen Anderson, The King of Ys, volume 1 (Roma Mater; Gallicenae), Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., page 401. From the entry odeion
• Kerchieved women flash by, crazy little mutts yelp, and the red roses of samovars burn in taverns and houses.1973, Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, translated by Burton Raffel and Alla Burago, Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam, Albany, N.Y.…. From the entry kerchieved
• There's a good tavern nearby where they don't baptize liquor!1965, The Road to Santiago: Pilgrims of St. James, page 194. From the entry baptize
• I left him and went to a tavern by the quays where the college bucks were drinking and singing hymns.1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 204. From the entry riposte
• Ed Archer Gardner says: DuMont television will glamify Duffy's tavern.1946, Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 4, 1945, New Series, Volume 40, Number 10, United States Government Printing Office, page 315. From the entry glamify
• Ti'erra went to the middle of the tavern and placed the head of her greathammer on the floor, with the haft in the air.2021, Nicholas Stanosheck, Vhaidra & the DRAGON of Temple Mount, Notion Press, →ISBN. From the entry greathammer
• So many other beloved greasy spoons, corner taverns and musty used-bookstores are gone that the impact of something Red Skelton said finally hit home.2021 August 23, Ron Grossman, “Chicago’s rapid change may be ‘progress,’ but it doesn’t always feel like an improvement”, in Chicago…. From the entry used-bookstore
• The tavern was absolutely slammed, but we finally found a crease at the bar where we could sidle up to and order a pint.2016 September 8, George S. Fleetwood, Put Another Pin in the Map: The Interesting Places I’ve Seen and the Food I’ve Eaten, AuthorHouse…. From the entry slammed
• We do prework on the clay for the next day, then it’s a beer at the tavern, and back on the subway.2009 August 2, Robin Finn, “When Batter Up Means Up at 4:30”, in New York Times. From the entry prework
• In Lexington, which was just then establishing itself as the principal town in Kentucky, he found work quarrying stone for a tavern keeper.1999, Stephen A. Aron, “‘The Poor Men to Starve’: The Lives and Times of Workingmen in Early Lexington”, in Craig Thompson Friend, editor…. From the entry quarry
• Shirley, Max’s daughter, oldest of the three barmaidens serving in the tavern, strutted purposefully past her two sisters to the ruckus in the rear.1994, Roy V. Young, Captains Outrageous: or, For Doom the Bell Tolls, TSR, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry barmaiden
• There were no shortages of places for refreshment in Fowey for, as well as the little 'kiddlies', it was well off for inns and taverns.1993, Judith Cook, To Brave Every Danger, page 11. From the entry kiddly
• The tavern keeper's an old friend of mine—we was shipmates when we was younger—and he sort of keeps his ear to the ground for me.1990, David Eddings, Sorceress of Darshiva, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry ear to the ground
• Otto's become an auto-antisemite, refuses to enter a tavern or a coffee house and walks around pale, tormented, and gloomy like a Jesuit priest.1987, Max Reinhardt Archive, State University of New York at Binghamton (publisher), Modern International Drama, volumes 21-23, page 68. From the entry auto-antisemite
• Many larger taverns maintained outdoor bakeovens.1930, Harry Ellsworth Cole, “Menus and Manners”, in Louise Phelps Kellogg, editor, Stagecoach and Tavern Tales of the Old Northwest…. From the entry bakeoven
• London died away in draggled taverns and dreary scrubs, and then was unaccountably born again in blazing high streets and blatant hotels.1910 July 23, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Blue Cross”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London; New York, N.Y.: Cassell and…. From the entry blatant
• They were never intended to form the gossip of the garde-robe of the theatre, or to supply matter of scandal for the tavern.1902, [Thomas Ebenezer] Webb, “Note E: Of Shake-speare’s Sonnets”, in The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence, London…. From the entry garde-robe
• Four years after, this military adventurer, who had given so much trouble, died in a mean tavern in Philadelphia, disgraced, unpitied, and forlorn.1902, John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI. From the entry unpitied
• The hot and heady New England tavern concoction called flip was slightly sweet, rum, ale and spice beverage heated to a caramelized froth with the wrought iron flip dog.2015, Elyse Moore, “Flip Dog in the Shad House: Commercial Fisheries Markets and Tavern Culture at Hadley Falls 1730-1880”, in Mark…. From the entry flip dog
• Dawn found him still awake, in one of the two taverns of Cumbe, drinking brandy with sour cherries and having a ballad contest with the caboclo Matias de Tavares.1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 138. From the entry caboclo
• He is especially appreciated by the hostess of this disreputable tavern, whom he calls, in lines of heroic verse, his “sweet . . . tristeful queen.”1971, James K. Lowers, King Henry IV, Part 1: Notes, Lincoln, Neb.: Cliffs Notes, Inc., published 1999, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry tristeful
• Thrones, chairs, tables, beds, ropes, carts, and guns appear in lightning speed to transform the stage into battlefields, bedrooms and thronerooms, into roads, docks, and taverns.1968, Antioch Review, volume 27, page 403. From the entry throneroom
• Most forgers were “drunken checkers," men who had forged checks at taverns, although now and then someone would arrive who had hung a great deal of paper before getting gaffled.1953, Tom Runyon, In for Life, a Convict's Story, page 9696. From the entry gaffle

Meaning of tavern

1. noun A restaurant or bar.
2. noun A building containing a bar licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, and offering sleeping accommodations for travelers.

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How do you use tavern in a sentence?

Tavern is used as a noun. For example: “I recently applied to the tavern for a job as a bartender.”

What is a short sentence with tavern?

“Many larger taverns maintained outdoor bakeovens.”

What does tavern mean?

Tavern means a restaurant or bar.