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Example sentences for "groggeries"

Lexicographically close words:
groceries; grocers; grocery; groceryman; grog; groggery; groggily; groggy; groin; groined
  1. The narrow crooked streets of the Five Points were lit with gas that shone dimly through the grimy panes of the lamp posts or through the open doors of groggeries and fetid shops.

  2. Elm street in the rear and Centre street in front of it abound in sour-savored groggeries and the shabby hang-dog offices of the lower order of criminal lawyers who practice at the bar of the Tombs court.

  3. They camped on doorsteps before dawn, and all the groggeries drove a roaring trade.

  4. Eddie frequently had to search through the groggeries to find him and lead him home.

  5. A goodly proportion of these latter came from the low groggeries of the Tenth Ward, where a peculiar variety of the female tramp-beggar is at home, the "scrub.

  6. By day they loaf in the corner-groggeries on their beat, at night they plunder the stores along the avenues, or lie in wait at the river for unsteady feet straying their way.

  7. Of the groggeries of Limerick and of the poison vended in them, I will forbear to discourse, for my business just now is with the country rather than with the town.


  8. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "groggeries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.