How to Use junk food in a Sentence

junk food

noun
  • And keep them keep them both away from junk food.
    — Wendy Naugle, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
  • More junk food on kids’ plates and worse health outcomes.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Start the new year with healthy eating habits and cut out junk food.
    — David Syrek, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Try to eat less junk food, red meat, pork, frozen foods and sugar.
    — Jereè Paul, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2026
  • If someone wants to buy junk food on their own dime, that's up to them.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Astronomers tend to be hungry, and many of us love junk food.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2025
  • If junk food for the brain existed, these videos might be it.
    — Laura Edelson, Scientific American, 16 June 2025
  • In Tokyo alone, there's plenty of fast food, and junk food.
    — Adam Yamaguchi, CBS News, 14 June 2026
  • What about the junk food and sugar binge my kid had right before bed?
    — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 11 June 2025
  • Eve by eating junk food at home with his wife and their four children.
    — Dan McGowan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • My hair needs cutting; my skin is rough from stress-eating junk food.
    — Pam Mandel, Longreads, 13 May 2020
  • Little kids can chase frogs, throw sticks in the water and eat junk food.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Then, get ready to binge on some comfort/junk food in hunker-down mode.
    — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • For our minds, the trick is to balance out the junk food with some mental kale.
    — Josh Linkner, Columnist, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2019
  • Nacua cut down on junk food and worked on the field and in the weight room to make his body leaner.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
  • Mexican schools have 6 months to ban junk food sales or face heavy fines.
    — Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Chef Jeremiah Langhorne didn't eat a lot of junk food as a kid.
    — Nate Erickson, Esquire, 31 Jan. 2018
  • There are fan parks in many cities, with big screens, beer, branding, and local junk food.
    — Hasit Shah, Quartz, 21 June 2021
  • Some people were like, this is going to tell our children to eat junk food.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 July 2024
  • The worms, however, weren’t tearing through a pile of junk food.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Yes, most farm subsidies go to corn and soy, two building blocks of cheap junk food.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • My character in Masters drinks a lot and eats a lot of junk food.
    — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Keeping us fed was a source of pride, junk food was a source of joy, and so our diets endured.
    — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 21 May 2018
  • And a date with the couch, junk food, and alcohol, just like the Gilmore girls taught us.
    — Jessica Pels, Marie Claire, 19 Oct. 2015
  • The truth is that most social media sites offer a steady diet of junk food news.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 16 July 2024
  • Minimize junk food to protect your brain.
    — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026
  • But the battle over the origin story of the spicy junk food will remain in play for now.
    — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
  • But the icon is just like the rest of us, and enjoys the occasional junk food binge.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 5 July 2018
  • The researchers compared children's weight in schools where junk food was sold and in schools where it was banned.
    — Charlotte Hilton Andersen, Redbook, 25 Jan. 2012
  • But waste not, want not, there may be benefits to the results of eating junk food.
    — Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Apr. 2018

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