dining hall

noun

: a large room where meals are served at a school, college, etc.

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Two hundred fifty people packed the communal dining hall at Nir Oz—the start of a campaign against the expulsion of the Bedouin and the Israeli settlement in the Sinai and Gaza. Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2025 Loftin Hall itself, the former student dining hall where the museum is housed, is noteworthy on its own, with beautiful Mexican tiles and sturdy wooden beams. Pam Leblanc, Southern Living, 26 Jan. 2025 June spoke quietly and thoughtfully, staring out into the vacant dining hall before them, then looked sideways—seemingly registering Gabriel’s presence for the first time—and shook her head. Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024 There were only three people in the large dining hall: Al-Fayed, Dodi, and, seated between them, the actress Darryl Hannah, who had opened the sale the previous morning. airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for dining hall

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