Thesaurus results for LUNCHROOM

lunchroom

noun

Definition of lunchroom

as in cafeteria

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Recent Examples of lunchroom Talking about lunchroom challenges at home helps your child handle peer pressure, feel more included, and stay true to themselves. — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 15 July 2026 By then, Debby Orcutt is out the door, helping her grandchildren get to school on time or heading to her latest part-time job wiping down lunchroom tables at a nearby high school. — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 31 May 2026 At one point, Tech returned to old-school hip-hop fundamentals, beatboxing and using his chest as percussion while rapping, echoing lunchroom cypher traditions. — Kansas City Star, 25 May 2026 Dozens of people crowded onto a stage behind a curtain in the school’s lunchroom ahead of the surprise, including Brewer’s parents and son. — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for lunchroom

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Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin broke out of Alcatraz by digging holes in the prison walls using spoons from the cafeteria.

— Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026
Tanvir gestures toward the Bari Imam shrine and the cafeteria where volunteers serve free food.

— Diaa Hadid, NPR, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of cafeteria

Noun

The arrest also comes just after the restaurant announced its intent to restart business inside the building that houses Maggie’s Pub in Whittier.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
In the midst of everything, Granado Montano turned her Los Angeles restaurant, Full Arepas, into a relief hub, filling shipping containers with donations to be sent to Venezuela.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of restaurant

Noun

The debate also prompted Charlotte diners to recommend alternatives.

— Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2026
In a time when diners can see a restaurant on social media before ever stepping inside, Boulud said luxury increasingly lies in what can’t be experienced through a screen.

— Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of diner

Noun

Americans' tastes also expanded beyond the traditional luncheonette menu.

— Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
Several symbolic scenes, similarly unfolding in sinuous long takes—a ritualistic repetition of local habits at the junk yard, a formal dance of non-seduction at a luncheonette with a jukebox—lay bare the town’s ingrained and unyielding mores.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of luncheonette

Noun

The casual restaurants serving simple, inexpensive meals, typically at a lunch counter, began emerging in the late 19th century.

— Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
The diminutive Taiwanese market-slash-lunch counter Taiwan Best Mart’s cold sesame noodles ($13) are a refreshing tangle of cucumbers, carrots, cilantro, scallions, sesame seeds, flour noodles and the market’s house sesame sauce.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of lunch counter

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