How to Use juke joint in a Sentence

juke joint

noun
  • Slim pass by a chain gang on their drive to the juke joint.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 2 May 2025
  • The twins have a truck of liquor and plans to open their own juke joint that night.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The juke joint was a place where people went to hang out and have a good time.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The stage set and background evoked a patinaed juke joint.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 6 Sep. 2021
  • So that chorus sort of lived in the juke joint and over everyone.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • His brothers open a juke joint in the deep South only to be attacked on their first night by, well, Irish vampires.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 13 June 2025
  • While Sammie plays in the juke joint, for one night in the Jim Crow South, the community has a moment to be truly free.
    — Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 23 Apr. 2025
  • 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 | [email protected], 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
  • Mister is drunker than a skunk outside Harpo’s juke joint.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The legacy of juke joints can be seen in a new generation of chefs and authors carrying on the tradition.
    — Korsha Wilson, Bon Appétit, 11 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • One raucous night at the local juke joint, a bluesy and boozy speakeasy that caters to Black patrons, turns into a fight for survival when vampires attempt to enter the premises.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Jordan plays the notorious Smokestack twins, who moved back to Clarksdale, Mississippi, in the 1930s to open a juke joint.
    — Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 4 June 2025
  • Kimbrough’s juke joint near Holly Springs, Miss., where the blues legend played almost every Sunday.
    — Gary Graff, cleveland, 17 May 2021
  • Some of its best moments center on those invigorating music and dance sequences at the juke joint.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • The use of traditional Irish music gives Remmick a timelessness, especially in contrast to the juke joint’s of-the-moment Delta blues.
    — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 19 Apr. 2025

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