1
: an establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold to be drunk on the premises
2
: inn
Examples of tavern in a Sentence
a seedy section of the city's waterfront that was rife with cheap taverns, tattoo parlors, and run-down flophouses
a colonial-era tavern that has been serving weary travelers for two and a half centuries
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Pamphlet was an enslaved tavern worker who followed his calling to preach, sermonizing equality, despite the laws that prohibited large gatherings of African Americans out of fear of slave uprisings.
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Ben Finley, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
The regular inspections include restaurants, taverns, grocery stores, meat markets and bakeries.
—Ashley Fredde, Idaho Statesman, 18 June 2025
Albemarle Country boasted three Founding Fathers and all of them—Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe—were said to have frequented a Court Square tavern on market days.
—Deborah Baker
june 3, Literary Hub, 3 June 2025
Among those are William Morales, a bomb maker for a militant Puerto Rican group that bombed a New York tavern in 1975, killing four, and Joanne Chesimard, known in Cuba as Assata Shakur, convicted for killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
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Ben Finley, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
The regular inspections include restaurants, taverns, grocery stores, meat markets and bakeries.
—Ashley Fredde, Idaho Statesman, 18 June 2025
Albemarle Country boasted three Founding Fathers and all of them—Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe—were said to have frequented a Court Square tavern on market days.
—Deborah Baker
june 3, Literary Hub, 3 June 2025
Among those are William Morales, a bomb maker for a militant Puerto Rican group that bombed a New York tavern in 1975, killing four, and Joanne Chesimard, known in Cuba as Assata Shakur, convicted for killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for tavern
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“Tavern.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tavern. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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