dining hall

noun

: a large room where meals are served at a school, college, etc.

Examples of dining hall in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web On a recent afternoon, some students took advantage of the school’s free valet parking, then walked by the dining hall, where a chef stood out front, offering them strawberries dipped in chocolate. —

Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024 The dining hall, closed for the COVID-19 pandemic, reopened a year and a half ago. —

Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024 Silence is golden, and the dining hall is laid out like an exam room to discourage chatter. —

Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2024 The caveat was that Lambert had to volunteer 100 hours a year to attend, working in the dining hall, gathering answer sheets during math competitions, chasing soccer balls during matches. —

USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024 Advertisement The address: 41 E. 8th St., also known as Market on 8th, National City’s drinking and dining hall. —

Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2024 The rare-book library shares an elegant plaza with Yale’s concert hall, the president’s office, the main dining hall, its World War I monument, and the lairs of Book and Snake, and Scroll and Key, two secret societies. —

Brian T. Allen, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024 Watching this play out was Haskins, who worked at a dining hall. —

Billy Witz, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024 Dramatic video footage from the event circulating on social media shows a large wave striking the Army’s dining hall, breaking down doors and knocking people down as water gushes into the building. —

USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2024

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