Example sentences for: taverns

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  • A collective and gregarious lot who seem to carry on much of their lives in the streets, Madrileños are stars when night falls, hopping in and out of tabernas and tascas (cave-like taverns and bars), for repeated rituals of tapas (bar finger-foods), jugs of Spanish wine, and hyper-animated conversation.

  • Complete districts from that time are still in place, replete with multi-story houses (called tenements or “lands”), churches, taverns, and tollhouses.

  • Down on the harborfront today, the old wharves, warehouses, even the houses of joyous ill-repute that cluster in back streets around any international port have been refurbished as Historic Properties, a bright and breezy neighborhood of artists’ studios and galleries, shops, restaurants, and taverns with open-air terraces.

  • Locals of all ages, from senior citizens to high-school kids donning Metallica T-shirts, crowd into 18th-century taverns to sip sherry or vino tinto drawn from old wooden barrels, and to munch on morsels of tortilla española.

  • You may be tempted into an overnight stay by the colorful inns and folksong taverns run by retired seamen, who look as if they escaped the old schooner stranded at the southwest end of the island.


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