How to Use diner in a Sentence

diner

noun
  • The scene in a diner at the end has a tasty tongue-in-cheek fatalism.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Joel carries her through a diner while the infected give chase.
    Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2023
  • One diner commented that the restaurant's French dip was the best.
    Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Be prepared for a wait, but use that time to tailgate with other expectant diners in the parking lot.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Inside the diner there are classic booths, chrome stools and tabletop jukeboxes.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Throughout the season the duo investigate a triple homicide that took place at a local diner.
    Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Jews made up the single largest group of diners at the canteens, according to a 1912 survey.
    Crystal Heath, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Placated, Torres arrives at the diner to find Knight but not Tennant and Palmer.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • With no-chop, one-pot, family-feeding and solo diner recipes, this one has something homey and delicious to suit just about every cook and situation.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The goal is to give diners a chance to socialize with fellow foodies, general manager Eric Bergstrom told us.
    Erin Alberty, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Callie Blue, a waitress at a Wisconsin diner gets a generous tip from one of her customers on Christmas.
    CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
  • At the Westside Restaurant, the archetype of a Greek diner in Manhattan, the cost of eggs and food has tightened profit margins.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Part of the ground floor space was also home to Parks and Rec diner.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The first scene of Dead Ringers takes place in a greasy-spoon diner after dark.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
  • That’s all the diner was serving, since the power was still out.
    Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
  • At the kosher diner, a third of the customers used to be Arab, said Stéphane Bsiri, the manager.
    Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2024
  • If that doesn’t take you back, the oldie hits piping through the diner’s speakers sure will.
    Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2024
  • In the language of food service, a diner is not a customer but a guest.
    Ligaya Mishan Kyoko Hamada Victoria Petro-Conroy, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Weisz and Birch met up, first at a pub in London and later in a diner in New York.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Akikos is for diners who go to shows and only want to hear the hits; the food is good, but not enough to justify the price tag.
    Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The diner wasn’t all that full and food prices were soaring, a fact Martin lamented.
    Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The diner that’s attached to the Galpin auto dealership in the Valley.
    Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • From the start, a lot of curious diners were eager to see what Blohme and DiMario had done with the place.
    Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Dreams do come true at Amazonia and Causa — his and diners’.
    Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
  • In the past, that meant an officer had to go to court, or even meet a judge at a diner in the middle of the night if the case was urgent.
    Ryan Mac, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Sieve said the goal with the new items was to introduce some fresh takes on classic diner/deli menu items.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2024
  • Prices range from $12 to $25, and the seafood boil is market price per pound, depending on the diner’s choice of protein.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • For their latest venture, though, the two are giving diners a taste of the Philippines.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The mom-and-pop diner; the vinyl record shop–the local and uncommercialized.
    Michael Serazio, Fortune, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Made our host cry and the rest of our brunch diners feel uncomfortable.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 3 June 2024

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