How to Use cafeteria in a Sentence

cafeteria

noun
  • His food kept warm in the team cafeteria.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Her high school class was the first to get to eat in the cafeteria.
    — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Let’s make our way to the cafeteria.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 2 Dec. 2025
  • He's done it three times over the last three years in the school cafeteria.
    — Nick Caloway, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Larkins couldn’t get to the cafeteria and on one day couldn’t get lunch at all.
    — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The cafeteria smelled the same.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The cafeteria is full of trash, and the equipment is old.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Class lets out and all the students race to the cafeteria.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • For meals, she and other young girls were marched to the cafeteria.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The dinners will be held in the school cafeteria.
    — Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Three live flies were in the cafeteria station.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 23 June 2026
  • Take a cafeteria in a school that’s used from 11 am to 1 pm.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • One parent said food had been thrown at her daughter in a school cafeteria.
    — Nicole Grether, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
  • But the cafeteria is also a haven — a place to connect with friends.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In a prison cafeteria, the head of a gang is warned rivals are coming to get him.
    — Tanya Melendez, EW.com, 1 May 2023
  • Lunch now spans three hours to fit each student into the cafeteria.
    — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2023
  • That’d be like me big-lip chomping on some bananas in the cafeteria.
    — David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • For a few weeks, the trio met in the cafeteria to check out each other’s outfits.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Someone brought around a tray of hot sausage biscuits from the cafeteria.
    — Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
  • The lounge looked like a college cafeteria and smelled of fenugreek.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The lounge looked like a college cafeteria and smelled of fenugreek.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • So, schools might want to check their cafeteria walk-in coolers or freezers.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Whole milk could be coming to your local school cafeteria for the first time in more than a decade.
    — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Once at the school, motorists could arrange for rides from the school's cafeteria.
    — Joseph Buczek, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Their initial meeting in the cafeteria seemed long ago.
    — Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
  • That really meant a lot to me because my mom worked in the cafeteria all of my school years.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 4 Aug. 2023
  • State of Union was about as decorous as a junior high school cafeteria.
    — Ian Fisher, Bloomberg.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Kids were playing in an after school program in the cafeteria next door.
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The 15-year-old was found in the school cafeteria with the gun in his backpack, deputies said.
    — Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Joanna adds that students used to call her names and mock her for eating rice in the cafeteria at lunch.
    — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024

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