How to use "speakeasy" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "speakeasy" in popular movie and book plots

  • Gallagher runs a speakeasy in New York City, where Ahearn works as his bouncer.  - Gigolette
  • Unbeknownst to them, the speakeasy belonged to Albert White, their boss's biggest rival.  - Live by Night
  • The title of The Hawk's Nest comes from the speakeasy around which most of the action revolves.  - The Hawk's Nest
  • One night they drag King and a girl named Vinnie to a "ranch"—a sort of speakeasy where people smoke "grass".  - Marihuana (novel)
  • In retaliation, Golo Schmidt opens Club 21, a speakeasy where patrons can imbibe such forbidden drinks as cream soda and ginger ale.  - Pardon My English
  • Gene makes it to the top in New York City, having been convinced by Ethel to leave the small-time speakeasy joints behind him.  - The Gene Krupa Story
  • Joe Anton (Raft) is a speakeasy owner who falls in love with socialite Miss Healy (Cummings).  - Night After Night (film)
  • Lily Powers (Barbara Stanwyck) works for her drunken, dissolute father in a speakeasy during Prohibition in Erie, Pennsylvania.  - Baby Face (film)
  • "I'm Sittin' on Top of the World", he sings to an appreciative speakeasy crowd.  - The Singing Fool
  • Jazz cornetist Pete Kelly (Webb) and his Big Seven are the house band at the 17 Club, a speakeasy in Kansas City in 1927 during Prohibition.  - Pete Kelly's Blues (film)
  • Laura and Barney watch his departure with sadness, and the world of the speakeasy goes dark.  - The Trouble with Templeton

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