lunchroom

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Recent Examples of lunchroom At Northview, for example, cellphones are not allowed during the school day and students are not allowed to use Chromebooks in the lunchroom. Caroline Beck, IndyStar, 7 Aug. 2025 His Edward works wonders on Stewart’s Bella, who spends much of the first movie staring at him, lips apart, across the high school lunchroom and parking lot. Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 May 2025 First, this manager purposely walks the applicant down to the lunchroom to get a cup of whatever. Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2025 The new brick school included a lunchroom and kitchen, and the Mothers’ Club hired a woman to do the cooking. Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lunchroom
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Noun
  • On a whim, the 30-year-old applied for several school positions — from cafeteria worker to custodian — including one for a substitute bus driver, despite having zero experience behind the wheel of a bus.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
  • This is the era of all-nighters, early classes, cafeteria skin, and figuring it all out.
    Larry Stansbury, Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At American Revelry, a Burleson restaurant with a varied menu, flatiron steak platters are about $25-$55.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The new Excelsior Club would include a restaurant, meeting rooms and a museum.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Addresses that shuttered last year are already occupied with new tenants, the turnkey transition opening new doors for diners.
    Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Holliday’s portrayal of the gum-chewing diner waitress landed many of the show’s laughs.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The luncheonette takes its name from one of Rouse’s favorite country acts, Pinto Bennett & the Famous Motel Cowboys.
    Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In addition to the luncheonette and pharmacy, there’s a full-service store stocking necessities from greeting cards to over-the-counter medications to beach accessories and sunscreen.
    Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In the daytime, the cocktail bar is filled with light from floor-to-ceiling windows commanding a view of 5th Avenue and the historic Woolworth building, where, as a student, John Lewis led lunch counter sit-ins.
    Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • As Gold well understood, the fact that L.A.’s Korean dumpling shops, Armenian grocery stores, Thai lunch counters, and Salvadoran pupuserías are open to curious outsiders is one of the great privileges of living here.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 28 July 2025

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“Lunchroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lunchroom. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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