roadhouse
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Ms. Reilly, whose Beth is unbearably snide, doesn’t really act but is still a presence, partly because she dresses like a roadhouse waitress rather than a cattle mogul.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Some at the roadhouse rally wore cowboy hats.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
On 14 December 1941, Almonds and another SAS soldier, Jock Lewes, who would be killed on a later mission, attacked an Italian roadhouse and a fort at Mersa Brega in Libya.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025
Gen Z’s recent discovery of 100-year-old Barney’s Beanery has made the late-night roadhouse as hard to get into as the spots the new crowd was seemingly trying to avoid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate roadhouse next door.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In contrast to strait-laced Seattle, where suds stopped flowing at 2 a.m. and never on Sundays, Georgetown’s unregulated taverns, eateries and roadhouses were open round-the-clock, serving laborers the hoppy product of their labors.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023
But there was nothing glamorous about being a rock ’n’ roll musician playing nonstop in bars and roadhouses on a circuit centered on Ontario, Quebec and U.S. cities like Buffalo, Detroit and Cleveland.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2022
Berry puts on gigs in these far-flung roadhouses.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019
As a teen-ager, Guy quit pumping gas and learned his craft in roadhouses around Baton Rouge.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019
On the verandas of funny little gray roadhouses with dripping red roofs officers sat over their breakfast coffee.
From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
