commissary
Example Sentences
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The line to buy food or hygiene products at the commissary was so long that sometimes detainees left empty-handed.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025
To make way for the Campus Project, NBCUniversal demolished the old commissary, a sound-mixing facility and other structures.
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
Whatever money is left over after the blazes Lewis plans to put toward scholarships for formerly incarcerated firefighters or divvy up and donate to individual prisoners’ commissary accounts.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025
Once we lost our credit at the commissary, we quickly ran out of food.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
