canteen

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Recent Examples of canteen His backpack had ripped open in the fall, and several belongings — including his cell phone and water canteen — were gone. Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025 Less racy but all fun and games, the camp has also launched a soda line given as a four-pack to campers as a welcome upon arrival, and sold exclusively at the camp’s canteen: Rootbeer, Ginger Ale, Sarsparilla, and Birchbeer. Kristin L. Wolfe, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025 The group also created the bookshelf displays, a mix of hiking guides and books on cowboy culture (some of which guests can grab for a quick read), together with props like a canteen, binoculars, and worn leather boots—all subtle nods to the state’s Western and outdoor-focused heritage. Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 18 Aug. 2025 The sandwich, featuring ground meat—generally beef—suspended in a thick, sweet tomatoey sauce, has become an avatar of the horrible school lunch, a cliché that tends to go along with hairnets, greasy aprons, and other elements of canteen grotesquerie. Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for canteen
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canteen
Noun
  • The Dodgers team mobbed Freeman at home plate as the Blue Jays retreated to their clubhouse to lick their wounds with roughly 17 hours until the teams will do it all again in Game 4 Tuesday night.
    Kevin Dotson, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Bregman was a leader in the Boston clubhouse by example and words, mentoring many of the Red Sox young future stars.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For a contest in 1994 during the homecoming pep rally, students were accumulating pennies in milk jugs.
    Jordy Fee-Platt, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Bobo, a depressive with a habit of finding a pick-me-up at the bottom of a bottle, checks into rehab and puts a plug in the jug for good; Ferrara’s father never dries up, and in 1980 follows his first suicide attempt with a second, successful one.
    Nick Pinkerton, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As Nolen started to prepare for his NFL debut — meeting his teammates, seeing his new locker and hitting the training fields — Nelson was meeting the team’s other wives and girlfriends, who would quickly become her main group of friends through the major life transition.
    Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby has seen his name tossed around in trade rumors quite a bit over the last week, so much so that he was asked about it at his locker.
    Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Leeds United find themselves in the opposite camp, ranking bottom in big-chance conversion rate after converting just three of 17 such opportunities.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Our analysis of satellite imagery of Gaza shows that there are multiple open areas that were once agricultural, adjacent to cities, that would be candidates for this type of camp.
    Shelly Culbertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Young children with dragons and cows painted on their small faces eagerly waited in line for kettle corn and ice cream at the many food trucks that lined the outer circle of the farm.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Explosives were mixed in kettles on the mezzanine level before being pumped into heating kettles on the main floor, McCracken said.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For Stone, the Susa sandals aligned with the breezy sophistication of her archival spring 1996 Donna Karan ensemble, which consisted of a column skirt and a collared top daintily fastened at the chest.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Vitello himself was suspended four games by the NCAA for chest-bumping an umpire during an argument in 2022.
    Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After all, the preppy look is trending right now, and this Amazon two-piece is giving major country club vibes.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Charmaine Gatlin liked the trappings of a lavish lifestyle — like buying designer handbags and playing golf at a luxury private country club in Weston.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Yamamoto is also the first pitcher since Curt Schilling to throw consecutive complete games in a postseason.
    Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
  • While Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a one-run complete game in a historic outing for Los Angeles at the Rogers Centre, all eyes were on superstar Shohei Ohtani after he was booed and taunted by the Toronto crowd in Game 1.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2025

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