How to Use cafeteria in a Sentence

cafeteria

noun

• Her high school class was the first to get to eat in the cafeteria.
  — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
• Stefanovic dragged the kid from the cafeteria at lunch.
  — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• For meals, she and other young girls were marched to the cafeteria.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
• During lunchtime, the rich girls often skipped the cafeteria and ate under the shade of the trees in the front yard.
  — Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• During the next few decades, there would be more fights—in the parking lots, in the cafeteria, and in the hallways.
  — Robert Samuels, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2023
• In a prison cafeteria, the head of a gang is warned rivals are coming to get him.
  — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 1 May 2023
• For a few weeks, the trio met in the cafeteria to check out each other’s outfits.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
• But the cafeteria is also a haven — a place to connect with friends.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
• That really meant a lot to me because my mom worked in the cafeteria all of my school years.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 4 Aug. 2023
• Someone brought around a tray of hot sausage biscuits from the cafeteria.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
• People filled the town’s lone tavern in the evenings, and the plant cafeteria, the only restaurant in town, opened to locals.
  — WIRED, 15 July 2023
• Multi-use space and cafeteria upgrades at the high school.
  — Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 20 Mar. 2024
• Throughout the day, performers took to the stage in the cafeteria with both music and dancing.
  — Austindedios, oregonlive, 10 Apr. 2023
• Lunch now spans three hours to fit each student into the cafeteria.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2023
• Joanna adds that students used to call her names and mock her for eating rice in the cafeteria at lunch.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
• Those auditioning for Knight stayed in rooms at the student union and ate in the cafeteria.
  — Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 8 June 2023
• State of Union was about as decorous as a junior high school cafeteria.
  — Ian Fisher, Bloomberg.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• Her mom, Michaela Alexander, rushes into the cafeteria to get the girls.
  — USA Today, 12 June 2023
• The school cafeteria worker envisioned a home just large enough so that no one slept in the living room.
  — Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2023
• One parent said food had been thrown at her daughter in a school cafeteria.
  — Nicole Grether, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
• By the end of the evening Wednesday, students filed back into the cafeteria for the award ceremony.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2023
• Joanna revealed that students used to call her names and mock her for eating rice in the cafeteria at lunch.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
• As Ohno led us through the basement halls near the locker rooms, past the players’ cafeteria, and into the bullpen, the boys got more and more excited.
  — Helen Schulman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
• There were furtive handoffs of information in the hallways and in the cafeteria.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
• The cafeteria where Davis spoke from was just the starting point for the after-school participants.
  — Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2024
• Stuck with the teacher and the kid is Randolph’s Mary Lamb, who runs the school cafeteria and is grieving the loss of her son, recently killed in Vietnam.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2023
• Students ate lunch in the same cafeteria, but one side was mostly Black students and the other mostly white.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2023
• The panic of opening an ethnic lunchbox in a crowded cafeteria is dead to them.
  — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 1 May 2023
• School projects are still plastered on the walls; books are strewn on tables; apples sit uneaten in the cafeteria.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• It is slated to have 400 cots and space for medical and legal services and a cafeteria.
  — Karen Zraick, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024