TAVERN in a Sentence

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48 example sentences for TAVERN, such as:

1. On reaching the tavern, Chichikov called a halt.
2. As we quaff our ale, we listen to the lively songs of the students in the tavern.
3. They will scatter the wet blue clay as quick as they can and go off to the tavern.
4. I should feel much more comfortable in a private house than in this disreputable tavern.
5. In the tavern, before which stood the doctor's covered cart, there were already some five officers.

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 Meanings and Examples of TAVERN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tavern
 n.  building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1  On reaching the tavern, Chichikov called a halt.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  The little wooden tavern, with its narrow, but hospitable, curtain suspended from a pair of rough-hewn doorposts like old church candlesticks, seemed to invite Chichikov to enter.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
3  Peering through the window, he saw draw up to the tavern door a light britchka drawn by three fine horses.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
4  Also, I wonder how you came to meet your end; whether in a tavern, or whether through going to sleep in the middle of the road and being run over by a train of waggons.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
5  However, as I say, the pair ended by swearing eternal friendship with one another, and making a practice of resorting to the village tavern in company.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
6  And whether in his office or at the Exchange, he would stop any friend whom he encountered and carry him off to a tavern to drink, and spend whole days thus employed.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
7  He found Bazarov at the tavern where they were staying, and was a long while persuading him to go with him to the Governor's.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  When workmen have finished their work they do at least receive their pay, they go to the tavern, then they are taken to the police-station--and there is occupation for a week.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: IX
9  One night as I was passing a tavern I saw through a lighted window some gentlemen fighting with billiard cues, and saw one of them thrown out of the window.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
10  They will scatter the wet blue clay as quick as they can and go off to the tavern.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VII
11  I should feel much more comfortable in a private house than in this disreputable tavern.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
12  They had hardly ridden up a hill, past a tavern, before they saw a group of horsemen coming toward them.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV
13  In the tavern, before which stood the doctor's covered cart, there were already some five officers.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XIII
14  Two tall old peasants with wrinkled faces and scanty beards emerged from the tavern, smiling, staggering, and singing some incoherent song, and approached the officers.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIII
15  The publican was fighting one of the smiths at the door, and when the workmen came out the smith, wrenching himself free from the tavern keeper, fell face downward on the pavement.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence:
1  As we quaff our ale, we listen to the lively songs of the students in the tavern.
2  It is the door that comes out into that little close alley between the tavern and the old rattle trap of a brick store.