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 | Minabinett@al.com, 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
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