How to Use mess hall in a Sentence

mess hall

noun
  • When taking the mess hall and yard lists, COs stopped in front of your cell.
    — John J. Lennon september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The base had a helipad, tennis court, recreation area, barracks, mess hall, signal towers and more.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The two groups of signatories stood on opposite sides of a table brought from the battleship's mess hall.
    — Henry Larson, NPR, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Most of the rooms, the bridge, the mess hall, hallways, they’re literally copied from the Nostromo.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The former mess hall now houses the national park’s historical collection.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • This take on the steelite mess hall-esque Dansk plates is your gateway to a Scandinavian minimalist take on tabletop.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Under a flagpole where thirteen stripes and twenty-four stars rippled in the breeze, over two hundred armed troops busied themselves in the barracks, mess hall, and ammunition and weapons depots.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The idea for Fabrecreate, as the company was later dubbed, started to take form one chilly night in 2023 when Gulati was watching the news in the school mess hall.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The two helicopters involved flew a dozen total loads of cargo from the icebreaker ship to the camp site, while glacial scientists and engineers erected a small tent city, complete with bathrooms, generators, and a mess hall.
    — Joe Wilkins Published Jan 28, Futurism, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The Beak and Barrel will feature a former mess hall for Spanish soldiers serving as the bar and the captains’ quarters of a Spanish comandante doubling as the dining room.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
  • University of Arizona's first building, Old Main, was completed in 1890, housing the school of agriculture, along side labs and one mess hall.
    — Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The Chinese leader then toured the vessel, including inspecting the mess hall and giving a trial press of the ship’s catapult button, according to CCTV.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The black-and-white picture shows 28 men of Japanese descent, American citizens, lined up on wooden stairs leading to a mess hall at Tule Lake, one of 10 internment camps in the western United States during World War II.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 19 Feb. 2026

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