How to Use canteen in a Sentence

canteen

noun

• Made the fires, and Susie and I boiled the water and put it in the canteen when it was cooled.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 27 July 2021
• In the morning, fill the rest of the canteen with cool water.
  — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
• The most amazing venue for the 2022 Winter Olympics is the canteen.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Jan. 2022
• The father of two ran a canteen at a health center in the district of Muhanga.
  — Ignatius Ssuuna, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
• By the 1950s the school and canteen had outgrown the space, and the building became a restaurant open to the public too.
  — Danilo Scarpati, WSJ, 8 June 2021
• The pack weighs in at just 13 ounces, but still manages to hold a 2-liter canteen for water.
  — Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2020
• The staffer didn’t see any Uyghurs in the halal canteen or on the factory grounds, Mr. Li said.
  — Yoko Kubota, WSJ, 20 July 2021
• There is a full-service bar and canteen on board for guests to enjoy.
  — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
• The city has set up beds and a canteen on the ground floor of the Palais, where the Cannes film market takes place during the festival.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2020
• The school dinners, the headmaster explained, would not be cooked in the school canteen.
  — Bono, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
• By the end of the day, the sheep was drinking water from army canteens and eating the desert grass that the soldiers had gathered for it.
  — Robert Draper, National Geographic, 13 June 2019
• Even then the pitch was delivered in an ad hoc way in a crowded canteen.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
• Their canteen and cooler bags are at a steep discount, too.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• Instead, people sit around and swap tales over stew from the canteen while mule deer graze mere feet away.
  — Zachary Petit, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2022
• The blue and off-white colored tiles give it the look of a high school canteen or a hospital waiting room.
  — Christopher Harress | [e-mail], al, 4 Mar. 2020
• Sometimes these meetings could be quick catch-ups for a coffee break or in the staff canteen.
  — Rachel Wells, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• The canteen provides sandwiches and home-cooked meals, and even desserts such as Pavlova have been on the menu.
  — Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020
• There's also a canteen with wine-tasting spots and a kitchen for cooking lessons.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 8 June 2022
• More of a canteen, Meder serves up lip-smacking good food that's fresh and healthy and where veggies are the focus.
  — Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• Even though the campus seems quiet and somewhat empty, the canteen is bustling.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• The last place serving food was the canteen at the local hospital, which shuttered in 2010.
  — Michael Meyer, New York Times, 7 July 2018
• Now sweat trickles, the canteen is out of water, and the September sun beats down like a blowtorch.
  — Bob Brister, Field & Stream, 12 Nov. 2020
• Over the past two weeks, there have been no school bells, bustling corridors, busy canteens or uniforms.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 28 Feb. 2020
• The canteen was obliterated along with nearby homes and a guest house.
  — Samantha Pearson, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
• The chatter around the canteen is all about the death of a popular health official from Covid-19 in a nearby village.
  — Nyasha Chingono, CNN, 31 July 2021
• The new collection includes a stemless wine cup, a canteen, a mug, a tumbler, and a lunchbox.
  — Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• After filling his canteen, Ralph pulled a trail map from Joel’s pack and was surprised to find that the next road crossing was less than three miles away.
  — Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2018
• That's where this stainless-steel canteen by Zojirushi Travel Mug comes in.
  — Isabelle Kagan, USA TODAY, 6 June 2020
• The list of virtues on the wall, the way the light poured into the canteen, the communal spaces laid out according to Montessori principles.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Molotovs littered the canteen, perched on ledges, cluttered the gym where people curled up on yoga mats.
  — Suzanne Sataline, Quartz, 30 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024