How to Use commissary in a Sentence
commissary
noun-
Sanli originally leased the nearby commissary kitchen for baking and preparing other foods for Lokl Haus and for event catering.
— Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024 -
Oh, and the prison commissary — West had worked there, too, for a year.
— Tommy Rowan, Philly.com, 12 June 2018 -
None of the hair products sold in the commissary helped.
— Alaina Demopoulos, Allure, 13 Oct. 2022 -
The area where the body was found used to be the site of housing and the commissary for workers who mined the red ore.
— Carol Robinson, AL.com, 2 May 2018 -
The money will go to Keefe Group, which runs the jail commissary.
— Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2021 -
Each month they are allowed to spend up to $320 at the commissary.
— Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2019 -
The man bought Danny coats from guys on the yard and cookies and ice cream from the commissary.
— Longreads, 4 Apr. 2022 -
The shaking cracked walls in a chapel and school and brought down commissary shelves, Allen said.
— Christopher Weber, Fox News, 10 July 2019 -
Expect to see a lot more lasagna on the menu at the Nickelodeon commissary.
— Chris Morris, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2019 -
Tamarind cooks some of their food in the Airstream and some in a portable commissary out back.
— Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 5 Aug. 2021 -
Bread for all of the restaurants, bars and food hall stalls will be made at a commissary by chef David Madrid.
— Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2021 -
Hunter also let Sims out of his cell to go to commissary.
— Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 30 Mar. 2018 -
The new space will operate as a coffee shop and commissary in the front and a bakery in the back.
— Dallas News, 30 Dec. 2022 -
The new location means five or ten more jobs in the commissary.
— Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 1 Mar. 2018 -
Their search for a commissary kitchen landed them a café space in South Lake Union, the heart of the Amazon lunch crowds.
— Naomi Tomky, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2020 -
The teenager, who was too young to buy a box of cigarettes at the prison commissary, was stunned.
— Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2017 -
Instead, you’ll be told to buy over-the-counter meds that are offered on commissary.
— Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2020 -
At the commissary, Ramirez quickly relaxed into the role of a boss.
— chicagotribune.com, 13 Nov. 2019 -
The food for all three stores is made from scratch every night in HBC’s Bloomfield commissary.
— Susan Dunne, courant.com, 15 Dec. 2021 -
Inmates can buy snacks and other goods in a prison’s commissary, but may not spend more than $360 a month there.
— Devlin Barrett, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2021 -
The primary goal was to boost the bottom line of the studio commissary, where Gray Line guests would stop for lunch.
— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023 -
Some food was donated, and the rest Thompson bought from the commissary.
— Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 10 Dec. 2020 -
Next up: a food commissary where Barajas parks his Outside the Masa truck.
— Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022 -
ICS, for example, is a subsidiary of Keefe Group, the largest prison-commissary provider in the country.
— Brian Alexander, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2017 -
In addition, a small meat counter and commissary is planned to sell grab-and-go prepared food items.
— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2024 -
Just a commissary and a pick-up point, about as stripped down as a culinary enterprise can be.
— Beth Segal, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2020 -
Inmates who don’t have money to spend on food in the commissary go hungry.
— Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, 20 Apr. 2020 -
That's his second place, a commissary in Madisonville where all their meats and sauces and soups are made and can be purchased for home.
— Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 1 Mar. 2018 -
The commissary was losing money, so the tourists would be allowed to eat at 3 p.m. in the commissary.
— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023 -
A week before news broke that the stores were shutting down, there was a meeting at the commissary with management, Mancera recalled.
— Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2024
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