canteen

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Recent Examples of canteen Classes for children from playgroup age to grades 1-5 were located where the plane crashed, along with a canteen, per TBS. Escher Walcott, People.com, 21 July 2025 Kirkby will feel a strange place — the unexpected empty space in the dressing room; the absence of a familiar voice amid the buzz of the canteen. Andy Jones, New York Times, 6 July 2025 Tang said his father worked in the canteen of a British Air Force base on the island and had bought this orchard in 1966. Tom Downey, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025 Each foot soldier carried a ten-pound musket, a sixteen-inch bayonet, a tin canteen, a linen haversack, and his own blanket—a battlefield luxury, since in peacetime five men typically shared two blankets. / Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for canteen
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Noun
  • Edgar Renteria, who won World Series MVP honors for his home run in the Giants’ clinching, Game 5 victory, was inducted into the Cardinals Hall of Fame on Saturday and swung by the visiting clubhouse to say hello to current hitting coach Pat Burrell.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • General manager Mike Hazen addressed the D-Backs in the clubhouse after the deadline deals, and Saalfrank said the message – to concdentrate on the present but also play for the future – resonated with the group.
    Jack Magruder, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Our testers especially loved that the granules are packaged in an ergonomic plastic jug that makes lifting and tilting it a breeze when replacing the litter.
    Kayla Blanton, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Other families were seen pushing and pulling makeshift wagons piled high with mattresses, empty jugs of water, clothes and other basics needed for survival.
    Aya Batrawy, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The bodies of Manu and Yuna were found in suitcases inside a storage locker in Auckland in 2022 after a family member bought the items in an online auction, RNZ reported.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Hooper asked rhetorically in front of his locker Thursday.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Hill missed nearly a month of training camp and preseason with an oblique injury.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But there wasn’t an obvious upward trajectory during training camp and the preseason.
    Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The kettle, finally, was screaming.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Pour-over coffee maker Pour-over coffee makers, usually cones that sit atop cups or carafes à la Chemex, utilize a precise pouring technique (ideally from a gooseneck kettle) that blooms the grounds and extracts the best flavors as the coffee drips into the vessel below.
    Mark Marino, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The 63-year-old NBA commissioner who came up under the fire-breathing David Stern, and who has chosen diplomacy over dictatorship since taking over in 2014, doesn’t typically stick his chest out when discussing such matters of governance.
    Sam Amick, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This tweed jacket is crafted with a five-button front, collarless crew neckline, and buttoned flap-welt pockets at the chest and hips.
    Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Aquaventure looks more like a country club than a water park.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Tennis was a little slower to adapt; country club traditions die hard.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Urquidy, though, is as good a hope as any the Tigers have for a pitcher who could bolster their staff.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Just as former star pitcher Mark Mulder was about to make his speech in his new green jacket, the ballpark’s fire alarm rang out.
    Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2025

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“Canteen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canteen. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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