(1) Manufacturing had moved South, shoppers were heading for suburban malls, a decent restaurant was almost impossible to find, and the nightlife was a barfly 's lament.

(2) A beer-swilling barfly

(3) The barfly was simultaneously pinching one barmaid's butt and vomiting into another's cleavage!

(4) It's like buying the old barfly drinks to see what he'll come out with next.

(5) Many years ago I had a buddy who was a regular barfly ; any night of the week when he wasn't working he'd be at the corner dive knocking back a few cold ones.

(6) In ‘Barred,’ a woman in a bar reluctantly engages in conversation with a barfly , both of them revealing a little more about human nature than was probably intended.

(7) I had gone from being a barfly to a social butterfly, and was starting to feel resentment at the thought of going to a bar and buying my own round.

(8) Tomei meanwhile reminds what a great actress she really is in her portrayal of Laura, a fellow barfly with an ambiguous background who briefly becomes involved with Chinaski.

(9) In the meantime, Tully has met up with and taken in a pathetic barfly named Oma whose husband is incarcerated.

(10) The barflies at Bombay Beach's Ski Inn drink, smoke and gossip about daily life.

(11) Several have announced they're retiring and not standing for re-election, while the rest are all but invisible in the electorate, except as sad barflies late at night in Mitchell Street nightclubs.

(12) Last Saturday afternoon, even before I'd hooked up with the regular barflies , I had a pretty good idea where the focus would be.

(13) When she returned to Britain, her follow-up project, Early Doors, a sitcom about a Manchester pub and its family of barflies , was also ill-starred.

(14) The place was pretty empty, a few random ferals playing pool and a couple of other barflies drinking bourbon and coke.

(15) I know he was an alcoholic thanks to the barflies in honky tonks like the Bloody Bucket who gave him beer.

(16) The few barflies left in the joint turn back to their drinks as if nothing had happened.

(17) Meanwhile, frustrated barflies screamed the actual lyrics and made instructive gestures at Brian, who smiled vaguely, raised his arms above his head, and gyrated.

(18) The judges are randomly selected from barflies from old ‘Cheers’ episodes although Norm has yet to appear and Frasier has a decent series of his own.

(19) His handshake is firm, the kind of grasp that must once have been very useful in dealing with over-friendly barflies and demanding directors.

(20) At quarter to midnight on March 30, thousands of barflies across New York lit a cigarette and took a resigned puff.

(21) It's not quite as exciting or controversial as tearing up a picture of the Pope, or declaring herself as a bisexual Catholic priest, but it's odd enough behaviour to stir the barflies from their malaise.