How to Use root beer in a Sentence

root beer

noun
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  • Freese's offers handmade fudge and candies, roasted nuts and root beer floats featuring Sprecher root beer on tap.
    — Jessica Rodriguez, Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2024
  • For dessert, there’s a Big Red float or a root beer float.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Mar. 2024
  • That’s right, there are root beer float and Froot Loops Peeps.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The space serves a full menu, plus wine, cocktails and root beer.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 11 May 2018
  • The fourth senior John Starzyk walked out of that gym with all the root beer, that ringer.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Request a scoop of soft serve in your root beer and voila—dessert!
    — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 23 Feb. 2018
  • The Jazzy Root Beer Float has root beer schnapps, coffee liquor and ice cream.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2021
  • There’s iced tea and root beer and snacks served on very fine china.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
  • Ask for a Nunan’s root beer and a side of ice cream to make your own Noonan’s root beer float.
    — Marissa Hermer, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2023
  • Seibt is brewing root beer, which the brewery used to make.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 19 Feb. 2018
  • Dairy Kastle serves ice cream, chili dogs, root beer floats and more.
    — Emma Austin, The Courier-Journal, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The result is said to make for a creamy and rich drink, similar to a root beer float.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 24 July 2024
  • Guests can make an ice cream sundae, pie a la mode or a root beer float.
    — Staff Report, Daily Southtown, 26 June 2018
  • Add the frozen root beer cubes to a blender, then add the milk, ice cream, soda water, lime juice, and whiskey.
    — Outside Online, 22 Aug. 2018
  • Your blood tastes like root beer, and some of your bones appear to have vanished.
    — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2020
  • With notes of root beer and molasses, this one seems perfect for fall.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Dads and granddads will receive a free root beer float with the purchase of any meal.
    — Weldon Johnson, azcentral, 10 June 2019
  • Fans of old-fashioned root beer floats have got to try this summer treat.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 29 July 2023
  • The brewery makes sours, barrel-aged ales, Belgian ales, stouts and even a root beer.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Also available are hot dogs, soft drinks, root beer floats and baked goods for sale.
    — Joanne Berger Dumound/special To Cleveland.com., cleveland.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Markert prefers a root beer, the sweetness playing off the saltiness of the sandwich.
    — Paul Kita, Men's Health, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Well, have you ever been enchanted by a root beer float, and the creamy texture mixed with the spice of fizz?
    — Ebony Williams, ajc, 6 May 2022
  • Scoops of ice cream in a glass of fizzy soda, often root beer, never go out of style.
    — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 10 May 2021
  • Starting in June, any A&W guests over 100 will receive free root beer floats once a week for life.
    — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 12 June 2024
  • At Dairy Queen, McClure battered steak, made root beer and mixed ice cream.
    — Emily Foxhall, San Antonio Express-News, 27 June 2018
  • Think Cedar Crest ice cream, Sprecher root beer and Johnsonville brats.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The legacy brewer produces beer, root beer and hard seltzer.
    — Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Being able to enjoy your burger with a frosty mug of the restaurant's house-recipe root beer.
    — Nate Chute, Indianapolis Star, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Some of the taps also will pour red and white wines, prosecco, water and root beer.
    — Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, 20 June 2018
  • The chips and root beer Schaefer keeps on hand during lessons only sweeten the deal, Grant said.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 10 June 2019

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