How to Use tavern in a Sentence

tavern

noun
  • If the tavern was not on 33rd Street, how did the house come to have the plaque?
    Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • This tavern’s space goes back to the 1960′s when it was known as Napoleon’s Nook.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 4 July 2023
  • Early in the movie, Marty heads to a tavern to find his friends.
    George Stanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2022
  • To buy tickets, go to the tavern’s website, fatlittlebuddies.com.
    cleveland, 24 July 2022
  • Two lonely and self-loathing strangers are seated in the tavern on a snowy evening.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Housed in a stylish tavern, Bar Le Côte is a must-dine for uni and oyster lovers alike.
    Ariel Okin, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2023
  • That night, at a tavern on North Avenue, 43rd Ward Ald.
    Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2022
  • The tavern is open daily at 1401 First St. in Napa; normanrosetavern.com.
    Ben Davidson, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The two owned a pizza place and a tavern in Evanston, Illinois, that closed in late 2020.
    Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The bar shootings come two weeks after 21 teenagers were found dead in a tavern in the city of East London.
    Mogomotsi Magome, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2022
  • But the rustic woodwork and vintage photos in the tavern offer hints of the old days.
    Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
  • The shooting in the Soweto bar comes two weeks after 21 teenagers were found dead in a tavern in the city of East London.
    Fox News, 10 July 2022
  • The tavern was a favorite watering hole on the Ridgeland strip.
    Bob Bong, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The tavern is a much shorter read, but no less delicious.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Take in a jousting tournament or go to the local tavern for a turkey leg and mug of beer.
    Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Skeff’s building on North Broadway was built in the 1930s, and has almost always been a tavern.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • The resident did call police, who found the subject in the tavern’s bathroom.
    Joan Rusek, cleveland, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Brown was a Black man, and Betsy Corns had been told to bring the ransom money to a tavern in a Black neighborhood.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The downtown tavern has had strong military ties for decades.
    Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Watch carefully for this moment, set at the town tavern.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 May 2022
  • The East End landmark also has a private pool, lush gardens, and its own cozy tavern.
    Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 13 May 2023
  • His father also ran a York Road tavern, The Patch, frequented by a sports crowd.
    Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The tavern is known for its burgers, potato skins, steak bites, chicken strips and mini tacos.
    Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The brewery has 21 Perch beers on tap and a limited food menu that includes tavern burgers, wings and dips.
    Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Lunch: Burgers at the Rocker tavern are $17, or around $90 for a family.
    Philip Kiefer, Outside Online, 3 Feb. 2023
  • That case began when three white people were shot to death in a Paterson, N.J., tavern in 1966.
    Joseph P. Fried, New York Times, 24 June 2023
  • Gastown is the site of the city’s beginnings, apparently a tavern owned by a guy named Gassy Jack.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Dylan Salmon, who co-owns the Baltimore tavern with his wife, Irene, says it’s a mess of paper scraps and legal pads.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • There are no monuments to Cohen—the tree and the tavern have enough history on their own—but there is a Cohen poem on the menu.
    Hazlitt, 15 Mar. 2023
  • His seventy-three thousand troops were camped on a ridge near a tavern called La Belle Alliance.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023

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