How to Use mess hall in a Sentence

mess hall

noun
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  • Inside the mess hall for the crew, which dwindled to just one.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • At the time Delbert Black was working in the ship’s mess hall.
    — Ryan Gillespie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The mess hall is equipped with TVs and streaming services.
    — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Showers were often broken and the food in the mess hall was poor.
    — Evan Gershkovich, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The mess hall is a couple of blocks down — also in a house that’s been long abandoned.
    — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Above their bunker home is a mess hall and billets for other troops.
    — Nils Adler, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Patrick’s co-host is Jeff Maxwell, who played mess hall staffer Pvt.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2022
  • In the mess hall, lunch was served in plastic bowls and paper cups: rice with ragù, sausage soup with day-old bread.
    — Time, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The recruits bellow Good morning, sir and Aye, sir and hustle to the head before a predawn march to the mess hall.
    — Alex French, Esquire, 11 Jan. 2017
  • The girls share a peach-colored bedroom, a kitchen, a chapel, a small mess hall and patio with a basketball court and a stage.
    — Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Employees cook edible gummies in the prison kitchen and stuff pre-rolled joints in the mess hall.
    — NBC News, 13 Mar. 2022
  • The city of Fort Thomas turned the mess hall into a community center.
    — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 3 Jan. 2018
  • The duty officer saw the same thing on a TV from his officer’s mess hall.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • If available, also add diced onions, bell peppers, and red peppers from the chow (i.e. mess hall).
    — Emma Schwartz, Bon Appétit, 2 July 2019
  • Hearty meals were produced in an old railway carriage turned mess hall.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Beyond his quarters is a mess hall consisting of a sink, oven and a small table.
    — Eric Dusenbery, ajc, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Given the circumstances, the Army Corps of Engineers might have thrown up rows of army barracks and stark mess halls and been done with it.
    — Emily Strasser, Curbed, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Others say feral cats, lured by mess hall scraps, simply showed up.
    — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Each was sent to Iraq and by sheer chance once ran into each other outside a mess hall in Fallouja.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • In Ten Kliks South, these questions are debated in the mess hall at the descriptive level.
    — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Evacuees curled up in sleeping bags on the floor and on couches in the mess hall, fighting off the effects of seasickness as the boat gently swayed across the sea.
    — Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • The site, designed as a Christian camp, had cabins, a shower facility, a mess hall, and a small chapel.
    — Adam Piore, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The camp has cabins and tents, a mess hall, a nature trail and a wheelchair-accessible, Olympic-size swimming pool.
    — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Curious West Point cadets threw out their guesses: mess hall silverware, a U.S. flag, a pair of boots, a diary, a class ring and maps.
    — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • And when a server escorts you into that narrow little mess hall?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • After Razz bought the land, two logging camp buildings became the rec hall and the mess hall; others would become the office and infirmary.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Troops decorated the mess halls with flags and evergreen boughs.
    — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • Tonight’s dinner, served in the mess hall, includes quinoa, steak, chicken, sautéed green beans, roasted potatoes, farmer’s salad, and homemade crème brûlée for dessert.
    — James Nestor, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Trump’s critics have never let him off the hook over military deferments that kept him from dining in a mess hall in Vietnam.
    — David K. Li, Fox News, 9 June 2018
  • In 1902, the White House dining room was remodeled and expanded to make for an even grander geopolitical mess hall.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018

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