How to Use junk food in a Sentence

junk food

noun
  • Like junk food that’s spruced up, but not in a chef way.
    Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Start the new year with healthy eating habits and cut out junk food.
    David Syrek, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Nacua cut down on junk food and worked on the field and in the weight room to make his body leaner.
    Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
  • And a date with the couch, junk food, and alcohol, just like the Gilmore girls taught us.
    Jessica Pels, Marie Claire, 19 Oct. 2015
  • Chef Jeremiah Langhorne didn't eat a lot of junk food as a kid.
    Nate Erickson, Esquire, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Being told to not eat junk food, or to stay away from fire?
    Sahar Arshad, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2021
  • For our minds, the trick is to balance out the junk food with some mental kale.
    Josh Linkner, Columnist, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Little kids can chase frogs, throw sticks in the water and eat junk food.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Don't label foods as good or bad, healthy or junk foods.
    Special To The Commercial, arkansasonline.com, 3 Dec. 2023
  • But the icon is just like the rest of us, and enjoys the occasional junk food binge.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 5 July 2018
  • Of course, there’s always room for a little junk food, too.
    Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But at my house, where junk food was king, the snack was always, always Cheez-Its.
    Bon Appétit, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The worms, however, weren’t tearing through a pile of junk food.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • My character in Masters drinks a lot and eats a lot of junk food.
    Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Then, get ready to binge on some comfort/junk food in hunker-down mode.
    Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Eve by eating junk food at home with his wife and their four children.
    Dan McGowan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • There are fan parks in many cities, with big screens, beer, branding, and local junk food.
    Hasit Shah, Quartz, 21 June 2021
  • The researchers compared children's weight in schools where junk food was sold and in schools where it was banned.
    Charlotte Hilton Andersen, Redbook, 25 Jan. 2012
  • And try not to drown out sorrows with junk food and alcohol.
    Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2020
  • So per calorie junk food is a lot cheaper than healthy food.
    James Brown, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Keeping us fed was a source of pride, junk food was a source of joy, and so our diets endured.
    Michelle Weber, Longreads, 21 May 2018
  • To thwart the inevitable junk food rush, snack proactively.
    NBC News, 21 June 2019
  • The best supplements on the market won’t make up for a diet of junk food and sodas.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • My hair needs cutting; my skin is rough from stress-eating junk food.
    Pam Mandel, Longreads, 13 May 2020
  • Some people were like, this is going to tell our children to eat junk food.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 July 2024
  • And actual food is only about 15 percent of the cost of junk foods like, say, Twinkies.
    Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Yes, most farm subsidies go to corn and soy, two building blocks of cheap junk food.
    Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The idea was to displace the Twitter fix with more nutritious stuff: less junk food, more healthy snacks.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The truth is that most social media sites offer a steady diet of junk food news.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2024
  • Some local areas are taking further steps to prevent children seeing junk food ads.
    Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024

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