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pubs.

n. (context legal English) (abbreviation of publications English)

Usage examples of "pubs.".

As some people judge towns by their shops or gardens, so Mackintosh judges them by their bus stations and their pubs. Each pub is unique.

They wear Marks and Spencer jumpers, sport haircuts his father would approve of and raise moral objections to going in pubs. They are always thin, as though they subsist on an unvarying diet of lettuce and carrots.

Most policy formulation seemed to take place in pubs. At least one of his colleagues from those days ended in prison.

As payment would be in advance and nonrefundable, he could keep their fees and revert to spending weekends in the conviviality of pubs. It is an intriguing prospect.

The crowd fanned out down walks and winding streets and disappeared into parked cars and pubs. The lights around the theatre went out, cutting bright coins from the river, as if a stagehand had thrown a switch in the water.

A crowd had gathered on the street outside of one of the pubs. As the car cruised past, a fight broke out on the sidewalk.

Minutes slipped by with rows of houses, red telephone booths, tiny shops and the inevitable corner pubs. Greer settled deeper in the seat when the town was behind them and only hills shrouded by approaching night lay ahead.

His abiding memory is of copious bad poetry made bearable by pints of bitter in the smoke-filled upstairs rooms of pubs. The in place was a tiny pub surviving amongst derelict houses close by the Anglican cathedral.

In desperation he sampled the older pubs. These were equally disappointing, with old men watching the newly-installed television and making a Guinness last all the evening.

Anyway, he was never one for going to pubs. That was when he succumbed to the television.

He enjoys fantasising in pubs. It is a pleasant and harmless pursuit which he should indulge in more often.