How to Use dining hall in a Sentence

dining hall

noun
  • Our friends at the dining hall tried to hide their knowing smiles, telling us to hurry back.
    — Tasha Sandoval, refinery29.com, 21 June 2023
  • Sun compares this process to eating in a college dining hall for the first time.
    — Jade Thomas, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Watching this play out was Haskins, who worked at a dining hall.
    — Billy Witz, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • In between stops, grab a meal at open-air dining hall Plasa Bieu.
    — Catherine Garcia, theweek, 25 June 2024
  • Sit in the student union, visit the library, or grab a meal in the dining hall.
    — Dr. Aviva Legatt, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
  • At eight in the morning, the men gathered around in the dining hall for breakfast.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The fourth building will be a single-story dining hall and kitchen.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
  • It's become taboo to enter a store just to look around, strange to sit and talk for hours in a dining hall.
    — Annabelle Canela, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
  • At camp, Plimpton hung around the dining hall and sat in the back of team meetings.
    — Stephen Siff, The Conversation, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The last four weren’t addressed in the allergen-free dining hall.
    — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Foolish, too, not to take the shortcut through the dining hall, which was empty at this hour.
    — Christian Wiman, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • The students dash off to their dorm rooms or dining hall, and wait to do the homework until midnight.
    — Sean Cho Ayres, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The largest room serves as a storage room and, when boxes and crates are shifted to the walls, a dining hall for feast days.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The soldiers in the dining hall were attacked without any warning.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Next, everyone crowds into the dining hall, where meals are served buffet-style.
    — Susan Casey, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Fare at the dining hall, housed in what was once a power plant, then a film studio, has received so-so reviews.
    — Sean Gregory / Saint-Denis, TIME, 24 July 2024
  • Footage showed the victim sitting at a table in the dining hall near the nurses’ station.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Over 300 maintenance and dining hall workers walked off the job two weeks ago.
    — Cbs Chicago Team, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Maids served the dorms, and a dining hall had chandeliers, gold upholstery, and a famous chef.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 3 June 2025
  • Mealtimes in the dining hall, by comparison, were a feast for the senses.
    — Nora Walsh, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Katie Ledecky, she of seven gold medals, is staying in the village and eating in the dining hall.
    — Mark Zeigler, Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2024
  • From the dining hall next door, the men in funny suits were singing together, clapping, and stamping on the ground.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Silence is golden, and the dining hall is laid out like an exam room to discourage chatter.
    — Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The next day the two spent the day walking around campus and even took a trip to the dining hall together before parting ways.
    — Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The walk from the dock to the dining hall to my villa took me along forest paths with purple flowers and a soundtrack of birdsong.
    — John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The walk from the dock to the dining hall to my villa took me along forest paths with purple flowers and a soundtrack of birdsong.
    — John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
  • But there are few residents around, the communal dining hall is riddled with bullet holes, and the kitchen is burned out.
    — Richard Engel, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • That’s included a new dining hall, staff cabins, the climbing tower, an archery range and the new rifle range.
    — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
  • The dining hall will have a cafe, televisions and internet access, Zaragoza said.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2023
  • But for two second-year students who cared more about being close to the dining hall than the sanctity of sleep, the rooms were perfect.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026

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