dining hall

Example Sentences

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The communal dining hall never had enough food, and the boys were always hungry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Its stitched-together scenes—frat pledge party, dining hall food fight, toga party, horse in Dean Wormer’s office, homecoming parade—were individually hilarious and held together only by the individual characters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

As I look back on my favorite egg recipes, I’m reminded of my childhood and early college years eating at the campus dining hall.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

USC officials say they’ve revamped food-inspection protocols after students shared videos and images online of bugs and mold in on-campus dining hall meals over a span of three months.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

Richard remembered him clearly, his mottled complexion, how he called science “muck,” how he ate his porridge walking about in the dining hall because he said it was what gentlemen did.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie