soup kitchen
noun
: an establishment dispensing minimum dietary essentials (such as soup and bread) to the needy
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Our Daily Bread, a soup kitchen that served a record high of meals in January, operates out of an 11,000-square-foot facility in Over-the-Rhine.
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Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 8 July 2025
Extortionists now operate in the poorest patches of Lima, areas with little policing, targeting hole-in-the-wall bodegas, streetside empanada stands and even soup kitchens.
—John Otis, NPR, 7 July 2025
Moore's the kind of artist who fills quiet pauses in interviews with anecdotes about nights at local Hawaiian bars enjoying cocktails and laughs with his neighbors, breaking bread with families in rural Mexico and building safe houses and soup kitchens in South Africa.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
The soup kitchen’s nap area, a quiet room lined with sleeping mats, was similarly crowded.
—Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Feb. 2025
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Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 8 July 2025
Extortionists now operate in the poorest patches of Lima, areas with little policing, targeting hole-in-the-wall bodegas, streetside empanada stands and even soup kitchens.
—John Otis, NPR, 7 July 2025
Moore's the kind of artist who fills quiet pauses in interviews with anecdotes about nights at local Hawaiian bars enjoying cocktails and laughs with his neighbors, breaking bread with families in rural Mexico and building safe houses and soup kitchens in South Africa.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
The soup kitchen’s nap area, a quiet room lined with sleeping mats, was similarly crowded.
—Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for soup kitchen
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“Soup kitchen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soup%20kitchen. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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