How to Use junk food in a Sentence

junk food

noun

• Like junk food that’s spruced up, but not in a chef way.
  — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2018
• Start the new year with healthy eating habits and cut out junk food.
  — David Syrek, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2020
• Nacua cut down on junk food and worked on the field and in the weight room to make his body leaner.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
• And a date with the couch, junk food, and alcohol, just like the Gilmore girls taught us.
  — Jessica Pels, Marie Claire, 19 Oct. 2015
• Chef Jeremiah Langhorne didn't eat a lot of junk food as a kid.
  — Nate Erickson, Esquire, 31 Jan. 2018
• 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
• But the icon is just like the rest of us, and enjoys the occasional junk food binge.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 5 July 2018
• 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
• The researchers compared children's weight in schools where junk food was sold and in schools where it was banned.
  — Charlotte Hilton Andersen, Redbook, 25 Jan. 2012
• 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
• Mexican schools have 6 months to ban junk food sales or face heavy fines.
  — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
• Keeping us fed was a source of pride, junk food was a source of joy, and so our diets endured.
  — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 21 May 2018
• To thwart the inevitable junk food rush, snack proactively.
  — NBC News, 21 June 2019
• 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
• Some people were like, this is going to tell our children to eat junk food.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 July 2024
• 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
• There was no product placement; that’s all Steele and Ferrell—both their love of junk food and commitment to a bit.
  — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024