How to Use fast-food in a Sentence

fast-food

adjective
  • But the fast-food chain got the last laugh.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
  • These fast-food places are busy and short-staffed.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Ice Spice knows her way around a fast-food joint.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Why have prices gone up for fast-food restaurants?
    — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025
  • In happier days, fast-food used to come with fries.
    — Joe Joyce, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • New fast-food chains appear every year.
    — Bob Rommel, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
  • See the fast-food pizza list below.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The fast-food chain has entered the crowded field in the snack wrap game.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Wendy’s – The fast-food chain tumbled 6%.
    — Darla Mercado, Cfp®,davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 11 May 2026
  • Worst of all, this collapse has come in the fast-food part of their schedule.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Over the last decade, c-stores have been taking market share from fast-food chains.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The area, crammed with fast-food chains and strip malls, might initially not look like much.
    — Katie Chang, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Five Guys isn't the only beloved fast-food burger chain.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Shephard recalled that one of them had worn a fast-food uniform.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • This summer has been all about new fast-food items at various chains.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2024
  • And the answer is just as murky for fast-food restaurants or coffee shops.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2023
  • That could put pressure on fast-food chains to offer even more value.
    — Dee-Ann Durbin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Her contact with them is limited to an hour or so a week in a fast-food joint.
    — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2024
  • In the fast-food segment, that means combo meals and value menus.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Breakfast sales across the fast-food sector have seen declines.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Your beloved fast-food chain has set its opening date — finally.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Today, nugget ice is common in many restaurants, not just in fast-food joints.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
  • The fast-food chain’s mascots haven’t been front and center lately.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • What are a pirate’s two favorite fast-food restaurants?
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Indeed, nary a fast-food chain nor big-box store mars this historic postcard idyll.
    — Staff Author Published, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2024
  • What is happening with fast-food restaurants and prices?
    — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The food is good, and much better than the fast-food prices Daybreak sells it for.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The fast-food giant has teamed with Paramount Caviar for the kits.
    — Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The fast-food giant has teamed with Paramount Caviar for the kits.
    — Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Feb. 2026
  • What does a fast-food chain have to do with an 11-minute all-female mission to space?
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025

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