canteen

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Recent Examples of canteen His backpack had ripped open in the fall, and several belongings — including his cell phone and water canteen — were gone. Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025 Less racy but all fun and games, the camp has also launched a soda line given as a four-pack to campers as a welcome upon arrival, and sold exclusively at the camp’s canteen: Rootbeer, Ginger Ale, Sarsparilla, and Birchbeer. Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025 The group also created the bookshelf displays, a mix of hiking guides and books on cowboy culture (some of which guests can grab for a quick read), together with props like a canteen, binoculars, and worn leather boots—all subtle nods to the state’s Western and outdoor-focused heritage. Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 18 Aug. 2025 The sandwich, featuring ground meat—generally beef—suspended in a thick, sweet tomatoey sauce, has become an avatar of the horrible school lunch, a cliché that tends to go along with hairnets, greasy aprons, and other elements of canteen grotesquerie. Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for canteen
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canteen
Noun
  • Frazier is beloved in the clubhouse and provided valuable leadership.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2025
  • An hour after their season came to a devastating end on Saturday, with a 5-4 loss in 11 innings to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Jays wrote the final few signatures on each clubhouse nameplate.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Thoroughly wash and dry a clear plastic milk jug or large soda bottle.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
  • For a contest in 1994 during the homecoming pep rally, students were accumulating pennies in milk jugs.
    Jordy Fee-Platt, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The firework went off inside a wooden locker in the fourth-floor research laboratory, which is part of the Department of Neurobiology, according to an affidavit.
    Michael Dorgan , Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Keystone ensures the Walkabout 26 Max exterior works as the most loyal of multi-adventure partners, starting with a huge pass-through front storage locker made possible by the drop frame.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • If Alt was going to be in the lineup, the Chargers had a chance to piece their front together and potentially contend, even after losing tackle Rashawn Slater for the season because of a training camp knee injury.
    Daniel Popper, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2025
  • In Kakuma, a vast refugee camp near the South Sudan border, starting in spring, our documentary team followed clinicians and families inside the stabilization unit at Clinic 7, where the sickest children come.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The beans and nine other sides have moved back to the kettles as of last week.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Eli Drinkwitz has done more with less at Mizzou, and there's little doubt he'll be targeted in this boiling kettle of a market.
    Chase Goodbread, The Tuscaloosa News, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Jenner also shared a mirror selfie, covering her chest with one arm and wearing a towel low on her waist.
    Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The hot water splashed on the inside of my left forearm and onto my chest.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • After all, the preppy look is trending right now, and this Amazon two-piece is giving major country club vibes.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Charmaine Gatlin liked the trappings of a lavish lifestyle — like buying designer handbags and playing golf at a luxury private country club in Weston.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Since their interim general manager listened to offers for All-Star pitcher MacKenzie Gore around the trade deadline, the Washington Nationals hired a 35-year-old president of baseball operations, Paul Toboni, to oversee their prolonged rebuild.
    Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Smith hit the go-ahead home run in the top of the 11th inning off Blue Jays pitcher Shane Bieber to give Los Angeles the 5-4 lead.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025

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“Canteen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canteen. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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