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
Every so often, we get a performance — at a graduation party, a county fair, a wedding, a roadhouse, a prestigious opening slot, where the crowds react as if they’re extras in a TV show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025
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
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
The group performed in and around Fort Payne until 1973, when the cousins decided to pursue music full time and started working in bars and roadhouses throughout the South.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
Berry puts on gigs in these far-flung roadhouses.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019
Reports vary on whether he graduated from high school, but he took up regular gigs at bars and roadhouses such as Strick’s.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2018
Gardens and roadhouses had appeared in the pleasanter places out of town.
From Children of the Market Place by Masters, Edgar Lee
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