How to Use soup kitchen in a Sentence

soup kitchen

noun
  • At soup kitchens, boys fight to reach the front of the line.
    Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
  • To find a pantry or soup kitchen that could use your help, go to the New York Cares website.
    Nikita Stewart and Todd Heisler Elaine Chen and Nikita Stewart, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
  • There is the teacher who now peels potatoes in a soup kitchen.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • His parish has hosted a soup kitchen on the same corner for over 30 years.
    Sam Russek, Curbed, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The Guest House and Repairers of the Breach have shelters nearby, and a soup kitchen is down the hill.
    Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 22 July 2024
  • The volunteer in the busy soup kitchen is engaged in a way the donor sending in a check is not.
    Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 25 May 2021
  • Where would a soup kitchen be without the volunteers who serve the food?
    Cindy Hamann, Houston Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
  • After Lana reads it, the Wachowskis write Carnivore, a script about a soup kitchen that serves the flesh of the rich to the poor.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 29 Mar. 2024
  • After Lana reads it, the Wachowskis write Carnivore, a script about a soup kitchen that serves the flesh of the rich to the poor.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
  • There were unpaid bills, and feelings of shame from having to go to a soup kitchen in search of a meal.
    Star Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Five mornings a week, two white vans pull up to the curb outside the soup kitchen in downtown York.
    Aubrey Whelan, Philly.com, 11 May 2018
  • Harold and his late wife Kay started the nonprofit as a soup kitchen in 1983.
    Linda McIntosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Spriestersbach’s main contact with the outside world, aside from the soup kitchen, seemed to be the police.
    New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • The includes food banks and pantries as well as soup kitchens at places such as the New Orleans Mission.
    Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Markle went into that soup kitchen and kept going back.
    Mallory Simon, CNN, 16 May 2018
  • The meat from the geese was offered to several soup kitchens and shelters, but it was turned down.
    Indianapolis Star, 3 Sep. 2017
  • On the sidewalk outside, the bums — as Camila called them — were lined up for breakfast at the soup kitchen.
    Lauren Sandler, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The first large group arrived on buses at a soup kitchen near downtown.
    Sandra Dibble, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2022
  • The coalition for the homeless runs a mobile soup kitchen every night.
    Cnn Staff, CNN, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Jasper said now the soup kitchen has a new 250-seat dining room in the St. Anthony Center.
    Cameron Knight, Cincinnati.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • At the city's biggest soup kitchen, some parents have even tried to give their children away.
    Christine Armario, Fox News, 13 July 2018
  • The World Food Program now help funds a soup kitchen where thousands of Venezuelans line up each day.
    Christine Armario, Fox News, 16 July 2018
  • These food pantries and soup kitchens have become part of an ongoing way to make ends meet.
    Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • People visiting the soup kitchen aren't able to sit in front of laptops or phones all day.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2021
  • But for many of the more than 500 food pantries and soup kitchens that rely on the anti-hunger program, the money is a lifeline.
    New York Times, 8 July 2018
  • Urban Roots donates 40% of the crop to local soup kitchens and food pantries and sells the rest at farmers markets.
    Jeremy Bradley, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Now, the soup kitchen is sustaining around 3,000 people daily, with hopes to be able to serve more.
    Monica Alba, NBC News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The soup kitchen that Andres plans to reopen to host visitors?
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022
  • If a workout isn’t for you, try singing in a choir or volunteering at a soup kitchen.
    Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Staff at the Shepherds of Good Hope soup kitchen reported being harassed and assaulted.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 17 June 2024

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