mess hall

Example Sentences

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The mess hall is a couple of blocks down — also in a house that’s been long abandoned.

From Washington Post

While relatively secure from civilian harassment in their barracks, mess halls and training exercises, the Tuskegee Airmen were still subjected to discrimination by white officers and noncoms on and off the base.

From New York Times

Anyone hoping to see signs of the building’s original purpose — an ancient mess hall filled with wooden bowls, perhaps — will be disappointed.

From New York Times

The mess halls ran out of food in the early days.

From New York Times

I imagined them in the galley, mess halls, companionways, sail locker, engine room.

From Salon