1.   At karaoke bars or at weddings, he would grab the microphone and break into song.

2.   Before I knew it, six mild-mannered adults were crowded around my desk, screaming out song requests like we were in a karaoke bar.

3.   Besides singing at Houston clubs several times a week, he checks out karaoke bars when he goes on vacation.

4.   -- Go to a karaoke bar and sing silly songs.

5.   After he approaches her in a karaoke bar, she tells him about her past.

6.   All in all, it makes a swell setting for a karaoke bar.

7.   But some saw him as high-handed and he lost ground Saturday in former strongholds where his efforts to suppress karaoke bars and prostitution cost jobs.

8.   By the time most people get up in a karaoke bar to sing, they already are half in the bag.

9.   For awhile, I had great hopes that the Japanese-invented karaoke bar would be our liberation.

10.   For high-quality entertainment, the locals could have found better performances in a Bourbon Street karaoke bar than in the New Orleans Arena on Wednesday night.