Example sentences for: saloon

How can you use “saloon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One can readily assess the relative status of establishments that refer to themselves as Eats, Diner , or Restaurant . One can also assume that in the United States a pub is at least one step above a bar , although a saloon may be a par with a pub since it connotes by-gone as opposed to a British (and therefore old-world) elegance.

  • And with notes of pride, those rags that have earned pejorative names in the local lore use those sobriquets in private correspondence, saloon chat, and unofficial résumés.

  • The device is not without its pitfalls however, as witness the following: Henry David's a Restaurant . The combination of the possessive and the apposition creates a solecism unless we assume that a word was omitted--perhaps Pub or Saloon . I have passed the sign several times in the past few years and recently noted that it had been cleaned and repainted, but the apostrophe remains.

  • He started his bank in a former saloon in San Francisco's Italian North Beach under the name "Bank of Italy."

  • The most famous modern-day floor show, erotic, brilliantly choreographed, and bordering on chic, is at the Crazy Horse Saloon (avenue George V).


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