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Examples of mess hall in a Sentence
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The Eisenhower, a vast, 1,000-foot, 100,000-ton Nimitz-class carrier, has a crew of roughly 5,000 and is like a city on the sea, with sprawling aircraft hangars, mess halls and sleeping areas.
—Courtney Kube, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024
Curious West Point cadets threw out their guesses: mess hall silverware, a U.S. flag, a pair of boots, a diary, a class ring and maps.
—Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
In 1946, Cook bought an old mess hall from the Santa Ana Army Air Base, hauled it up El Toro Road, and the tavern was born.
—Richard Winton, Jeremy Childs, Hannah Fry, Julia Wick, Christian Martinez, Summer Lin and Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2023
There were generators and hot water pumps for showers and washing machines, a mess hall where pensioners and men in military garb sat watching television as volunteers made coffee and prepared snacks.
—Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
Evacuees curled up in sleeping bags on the floor and on couches in the mess hall, fighting off the effects of seasickness as the boat gently swayed across the sea.
—Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 3 May 2023
And when a server escorts you into that narrow little mess hall?
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
Housed in Point Loma’s Historic Liberty Station, Liberty Public Market was once the mess hall when the property served as the Naval Training Center.
—Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
The Great Hall is the mess hall in the center of camp, with the ferry dock, sports fields, and high-ropes course to the south and the pool and arts pavilion to the north. Liam Colton, 13, froze in a scrum during a game of steal the chicken at Camp Harbor View on Long Island.
—Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1821, in the meaning defined above
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“Mess hall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mess%20hall. Accessed 31 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
mess hall
noun
: a hall or building (as on an army post) in which mess is served
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