How to Use juke joint in a Sentence

juke joint

noun
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  • The stage set and background evoked a patinaed juke joint.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 6 Sep. 2021
  • Known for its drug houses and juke joints and hot-sheet motels.
    — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2020
  • His mother was known as a faith healer, and his father ran a juke joint.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Two large portraits at his juke joint pay homage to his mentors, Stuckey and Jack Owens.
    — Leah Willingham, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The definition was again broadened to mean more of hangout, like a juke joint or a burger joint.
    — Howard Gensler, Philly.com, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Proprietor Red Paden presides over this tiny juke joint in Clarksdale, a Delta city with as strong a claim to the blues as anywhere in the region.
    — Jim Beaugez, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2022
  • But that night, Cherrie said the juke joint was reminiscent of its early years.
    — al, 13 Aug. 2019
  • For nearly 70 years, the beloved Bessemer juke joint has been part concert venue, part church, part fortress of gratitude.
    — al, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Auerbach went straight to Junior Kimbrough’s juke joint.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, New York Times, 26 May 2021
  • His family, which once owned thousands of acres, ran the largest black beach in the state, with juke joints and crab shacks, an amusement park and a three-story hotel.
    — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 15 July 2019
  • Melrose grew up far from the Louisiana juke joints where Spanish music was played or the cotton fields where the blues were sung.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The current Crowes tour turns an amphitheater stage into an oversized juke joint.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 17 June 2022
  • Questions surrounded the future of the juke joint in August, when the managers who had booked bands for the joint for nearly five years decided to step away.
    — al, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The film unravels 40 years of secrets and lies in a tale of forbidden love and family drama soundtracked by juke joint blues in the deep South.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
  • At one point the two outlaws stop at a juke joint somewhere in Georgia, where they’re treated like royalty by customers and bar staff alike.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Freeman’s scenes range in chronology from juke joints to discos, and in geography from the United States to Brazil.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Kimbrough’s juke joint near Holly Springs, Miss., where the blues legend played almost every Sunday.
    — Gary Graff, cleveland, 17 May 2021
  • The music, recorded in living rooms and juke joints and even on sidewalks, is primarily blues but also includes gospel and tinges of country.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
  • His mother stepped into the managerial role, booking church and juke joint gigs, calling news outlets.
    — Carlo Rotella, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
  • The temperature, failing to drop well past midnight, kept things hot and heavy as nearly all the guests ventured down the street to the historic juke joint Sahara Lounge for a rousing all-night after-party fueled by a live 10-piece African band.
    — Andrew Bevan, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Even better is an homage to the drinking culture of the Deep South juke joint, drawing on moonshine and local gins with fruity, salty, and pungent elements like butterscotch, ginger, and hibiscus.
    — Michael W. Twitty, Bon Appétit, 13 May 2021
  • New industries like the Ludlow textile plant had injected money into the town, and workers left plenty of their wages on the table at its juke joints on Church Street, the town’s notorious home of gambling and vice.
    — Jim Beaugez, New York Times, 29 May 2023
  • Photojournalist Kavin Ross' grandfather survived the massacre, but his Greenwood juke joint was destroyed.
    — CBS News, 19 June 2020
  • The Band began as supporting players for rockabilly star Ronnie Hawkins in the early 1960s and through their years together in bars and juke joints forged a depth and versatility that opened them to virtually any kind of music in any kind of setting.
    — Hillel Italie, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Other quick notes, both historical and plotwise: Did Johnson’s half-sister Carrie Thompson actually run a juke joint?
    — Rachel Kaufman, Smithsonian, 23 Apr. 2018
  • But there’s an uncomfortable degree of caricature in Act 1, especially at Harpo’s juke joint.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The pair became fast friends and Leone eventually visited Grenada, becoming familiar with juke joints, sharecroppers and common people, as well as their rich musical heritage.
    — cleveland, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The multipart piece memorializes childhood summer trips from his home in Chicago to visit family in Mississippi, where an uncle operated a candy store out of a double-wide trailer, which became a juke joint at night.
    — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022

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