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This is different from the pastime counterfactuals enjoyed after the fact by barfly drunks and social media idiots.—
Kyle Wagner,
New York Daily News,
3 June 2026 McLean was last seen on screen as a barfly in a season 7 episode of Netflix's Virgin River.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 May 2026 Most recently, McLean played a barfly on a 2026 episode of Virgin River, the Netflix drama that films in British Columbia.—
Janelle Griffith,
PEOPLE,
22 May 2026 Hawke renders Hart as the most erudite barfly to buzz around mid-century Manhattan.—
Kyle McGovern,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for barfly