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
  • 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
  • No matter the time of day, there’s usually a cluster of people standing around it, each of them filling up empty bottles and gallon jugs.
    Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 2 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
  • Two front pockets create cozy spots for your hands, and the zippered chest pocket offers easy access to small essentials.
    Anne Taylor, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Another video emerged that showed that Prescott spit on the ground in Carter’s direction first, but Carter then spit on Prescott’s chest, drawing the ejection.
    Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Tennis was a little slower to adapt; country club traditions die hard.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Samadi and Sigari and the baby were walking southbound on Ridge Road near the Indian Hill Club, a country club at 1 Indian Hill Road in Winnetka, according to sheriff’s office reports.
    Pam DeFiglio, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Matt Chapman’s hearing scheduled Matt Chapman, who received a one-game suspension for shoving Rockies pitcher Kyle Freeland on Tuesday, has an appeal hearing scheduled via teleconference Thursday.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • All rights reserved The Arizona Diamondbacks traded both corner infielders, including the NL’s leading home run hitter, and their most efficient pitcher at the July 31 trade deadline.
    Jack Magruder, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025

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