How to Use soup kitchen in a Sentence

soup kitchen

noun
  • At soup kitchens, boys fight to reach the front of the line.
    Adam Rasgon, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2023
  • To find a pantry or soup kitchen that could use your help, go to the New York Cares website.
    Nikita Stewart and Todd Heisler Elaine Chen and Nikita Stewart, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
  • There is the teacher who now peels potatoes in a soup kitchen.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • His parish has hosted a soup kitchen on the same corner for over 30 years.
    Sam Russek, Curbed, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The volunteer in the busy soup kitchen is engaged in a way the donor sending in a check is not.
    Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 25 May 2021
  • After Lana reads it, the Wachowskis write Carnivore, a script about a soup kitchen that serves the flesh of the rich to the poor.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
  • There were unpaid bills, and feelings of shame from having to go to a soup kitchen in search of a meal.
    Star Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Spriestersbach’s main contact with the outside world, aside from the soup kitchen, seemed to be the police.
    New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • On the sidewalk outside, the bums — as Camila called them — were lined up for breakfast at the soup kitchen.
    Lauren Sandler, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The first large group arrived on buses at a soup kitchen near downtown.
    Sandra Dibble, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2022
  • The coalition for the homeless runs a mobile soup kitchen every night.
    Cnn Staff, CNN, 2 Apr. 2020
  • These food pantries and soup kitchens have become part of an ongoing way to make ends meet.
    Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • People visiting the soup kitchen aren't able to sit in front of laptops or phones all day.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Urban Roots donates 40% of the crop to local soup kitchens and food pantries and sells the rest at farmers markets.
    Jeremy Bradley, CBS News, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The soup kitchen that Andres plans to reopen to host visitors?
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022
  • If a workout isn’t for you, try singing in a choir or volunteering at a soup kitchen.
    Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2022
  • This is Uruguay's version of a soup kitchen during the pandemic.
    Darío Klein and Rafael Romo, CNN, 3 May 2021
  • The soup kitchen down the street had given her an old camp chair to sit in and some leftover potatoes to get her through the afternoon.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 7 Nov. 2019
  • As in other soup kitchens in the country of 46 million people, many children come to get fed.
    Fox News, 14 June 2023
  • Monique, who asked for safety reasons that her last name not be used, read about the clinic on a flyer at a soup kitchen.
    Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Indians wait in line at a soup kitchen in Calcutta, now Kolkata, in October 1943 at the peak of the famine.
    Hyder Abbasi, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The common pot, comparable to a small-scale soup kitchen, provides them one meal a day.
    Franklin Briceno, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2022
  • This could be volunteering at a soup kitchen or helping plan a protest.
    Elissa Strauss, CNN, 22 Apr. 2022
  • His goal was to teach people the art of growing enough vegetables to feed themselves or to supply a soup kitchen.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Martin said Salvation Army volunteers are able to cook and serve meals at the soup kitchen.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Williams and her siblings had to ask for food at a local baker and St. Vincent DePaul soup kitchen.
    Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Some did it on their own, like Noosh Nosh, which became a soup kitchen for a while, or Kaiju Bar, which became a grocery.
    Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Many of the Venezuelan migrants congregate outside a thatch-roof soup kitchen opened just a few months ago by an aid group.
    Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Patterson would frequently volunteer at the soup kitchen and to clean the church.
    Sanya Mansoor, Time, 16 May 2022
  • Brother Benno’s opened as a soup kitchen in downtown Oceanside in 1983.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2022

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