Examples of canteen in a Sentence
The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2024
The prison staff beat and pepper-sprayed the inmates, removed TVs and radios and denied them access to showers and the canteen.
—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
Very few living people still remember the canteen firsthand.
—Annika Hipple, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
Seydou runs back to help, offering the woman water from his canteen and urging her to keep walking.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Tall laundry bins held hundreds of American military canteens and current-issue British camouflage uniforms and equipment.
—Charles W. McFarlane, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
The kids, grouped in teams with names like Rascally Raccoons and Brave Bears, listened to Bible stories, played games, made their own canteens in craft class and sang hymns designed for young voices.
—Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
No one going to prison expects a spa experience from the canteens and commissaries selling personal-care products to the population.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 25 Jan. 2024
Sometimes these meetings could be quick catch-ups for a coffee break or in the staff canteen.
—Rachel Wells, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
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Word History
French cantine bottle case, sutler's shop, from Italian cantina wine cellar, probably from canto corner, from Latin canthus iron tire — more at cant entry 4
1737, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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