How to Use junk food in a Sentence

junk food

noun
Definition of junk foodnext
  • Start the new year with healthy eating habits and cut out junk food.
    — David Syrek, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Being told to not eat junk food, or to stay away from fire?
    — Sahar Arshad, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2021
  • For our minds, the trick is to balance out the junk food with some mental kale.
    — Josh Linkner, Columnist, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Little kids can chase frogs, throw sticks in the water and eat junk food.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Don't label foods as good or bad, healthy or junk foods.
    — Special To The Commercial, arkansasonline.com, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Of course, there’s always room for a little junk food, too.
    — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2023
  • But at my house, where junk food was king, the snack was always, always Cheez-Its.
    — Bon Appétit, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The worms, however, weren’t tearing through a pile of junk food.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • My character in Masters drinks a lot and eats a lot of junk food.
    — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Then, get ready to binge on some comfort/junk food in hunker-down mode.
    — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Eve by eating junk food at home with his wife and their four children.
    — Dan McGowan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • There are fan parks in many cities, with big screens, beer, branding, and local junk food.
    — Hasit Shah, Quartz, 21 June 2021
  • And try not to drown out sorrows with junk food and alcohol.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2020
  • So per calorie junk food is a lot cheaper than healthy food.
    — James Brown, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The best supplements on the market won’t make up for a diet of junk food and sodas.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • My hair needs cutting; my skin is rough from stress-eating junk food.
    — Pam Mandel, Longreads, 13 May 2020
  • And actual food is only about 15 percent of the cost of junk foods like, say, Twinkies.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Yes, most farm subsidies go to corn and soy, two building blocks of cheap junk food.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The idea was to displace the Twitter fix with more nutritious stuff: less junk food, more healthy snacks.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Cutting out junk food would mean slimming down their sales.
    — The Economist, 28 Oct. 2019
  • But his house was always full of sodas and junk food, and he and the rest of his family were given the same heavy meals.
    — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • And before every jazz band concert, my best friends and I would go across the street to this restaurant, load up on a ton of junk food.
    — ABC News, 1 Jan. 2023
  • When hot and crispy, tots are manufactured junk food at its finest.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Cookies, ice cream and other junk food will not cross my threshold.
    — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Haigh then cuts to Adam sitting on his couch, eating junk food and watching junk TV until the wee hours.
    — Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Frozen bacon, pizza, lasagna, goulash and various junk foods are the norm.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2020
  • The excuse for grabbing junk food is our lack of time to get something healthier.
    — Colin Daniels, Chron, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Fast food, grocery store delis and junk food altered the availability of a quick meal.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Some clues about her background, like a plate of junk food seasoned with glitter, were dead giveaways for fans.
    — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 19 May 2020
  • The first leg of that drive to Taneycomo was powered by laughter, loud music, and a pile of junk food.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 24 Feb. 2020

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