tavern

Example Sentences

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While it certainly helps, you don’t need to own a historic building to open a tavern.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The police added that the tavern was licensed.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025

In “Twenty-Sided Tavern,” there are three core actors playing and acting out the game, one dungeon master and a sort of tavern keeper helping to keep score and track of the story.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

The first Pizza Hut opened in a converted tavern in Wichita, Kansas, in 1958.

From Slate • Nov. 13, 2025

When the war finally ended Mother and I sold the tavern and moved out to Pennsylvania where new lands were opening up and surveyors were much in demand.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier