BAR in a Sentence

Learn BAR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

336 example sentences for BAR, such as:

1. We all stopped off at a bar.
2. The door had no inside bolt or bar.
3. Everyone in the bar was sporting a suntan.
4. He said he'd picked the woman up in a bar.
5. He was chomping away on a bar of chocolate.

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 Meanings and Examples of BAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bar
 n.  a counter where you can obtain food or drink; cafe; strip; stick
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Some of the things that he knew--that she strolled the garden at midnight in silk pyjamas, had the loud speaker playing jazz, and a cocktail bar, of course they knew also.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
2  He unfolded the chair and fixed the bar into the right notch.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
3  But, she was crying, had we met before the salmon leapt like a bar of silver.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
4  She thrust her suit case in at the scullery window and walked on, till at the corner she saw the red curtain at the bar window.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
5  He is a bar betwixt Front-de-Boeuf and that which Front-de-Boeuf loves better than either ambition or beauty.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  The door had no inside bolt or bar.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  The fire was red, rather low, the bar dropped, the kettle singing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
8  This was addressed to a bluff old fellow, in a striped waistcoat, who was standing by the bar.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  'She's bid havid a plate of boiled beef id the bar,' replied Barney.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  'More like the noise of powdering a iron bar on a nutmeg-grater,' suggested Brittles.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  Mr. Bumble stepped in; and ordering something to drink, as he passed the bar, entered the apartment into which he had looked from the street.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  There was nobody in the bar but a young Jew, who, with his two elbows on the counter, was reading a dirty newspaper.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  Holmes pushed open the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
14  So tall was he that his hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his breadth seemed to span it across from side to side.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
15  There was no slit through which a knife could be passed to raise the bar.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
Example Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
16  We all stopped off at a bar.
17  He was chomping away on a bar of chocolate.
18  He surveyed the handful of custo-mers at the bar.
19  He would much rather have been crooning in a smoky bar.
20  He with his hatchet men swaggered out of the bar.
21  There was a slight contretemps between Richard and some bloke at the bar.
22  He said he'd picked the woman up in a bar.
23  An unholy row broke out between two of the men drinking in the bar.
24  Downstairs there's a breakfast room and guests can relax in the cosy bar.
25  A number of football fans had been ejected from the bar for causing trouble.
26  We went for a sandwich lunch at the local bar.
27  A group of half a dozen men entered the pub and bore down on the bar.
28  He jumped off the bus and made a dash for the nearest bar.
29  After the play had finished, we lingered for a while in the bar hoping to catch sight of the actors.
30  Everyone in the bar was sporting a suntan.