commissary

Example Sentences

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The state-of-the-art complex has five sound stages, offices and other proper movie studio features such as a mill, commissary and base camp.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

The “kitty” is then resold, creating a secondary market within the jails that is cheaper than the commissary.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2025

The Commons has a commissary, a full-service restaurant, a theater complex and an event space for public and private meetings.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025

The leftover money will either go toward the inmates’ commissary accounts or scholarship funds for formerly incarcerated firefighters.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

Business was good—or rather it would have been good if we had had anything to sell, and people had had anything to pay for it with besides commissary scrip.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier