How to Use mess hall in a Sentence

mess hall

noun
  • Inside the mess hall for the crew, which dwindled to just one.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Above their bunker home is a mess hall and billets for other troops.
    — Nils Adler, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Showers were often broken and the food in the mess hall was poor.
    — Evan Gershkovich, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Hearty meals were produced in an old railway carriage turned mess hall.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Others say feral cats, lured by mess hall scraps, simply showed up.
    — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2017
  • 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 mess hall is a couple of blocks down — also in a house that’s been long abandoned.
    — Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
  • At the time Delbert Black was working in the ship’s mess hall.
    — Ryan Gillespie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Patrick’s co-host is Jeff Maxwell, who played mess hall staffer Pvt.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Beyond his quarters is a mess hall consisting of a sink, oven and a small table.
    — Eric Dusenbery, ajc, 28 Sep. 2021
  • And when a server escorts you into that narrow little mess hall?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Troops decorated the mess halls with flags and evergreen boughs.
    — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • And simple conversations in the mess hall can make a huge impression.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The duty officer saw the same thing on a TV from his officer’s mess hall.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The city of Fort Thomas turned the mess hall into a community center.
    — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 3 Jan. 2018
  • Menna stressed their importance at a presentation on survival skills in the mess hall.
    — Cara Kelly, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The station boasted a mess hall, barracks, a library, a post office, and a hobby shop, all encased in the ice.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Each was sent to Iraq and by sheer chance once ran into each other outside a mess hall in Fallouja.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The prisoners ate in mess halls and showered in communal bathrooms without stalls.
    — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • 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 recruits bellow Good morning, sir and Aye, sir and hustle to the head before a predawn march to the mess hall.
    — Alex French, Esquire, 11 Jan. 2017
  • Workers have already razed the headquarters building and mess halls that the storm mangled beyond repair.
    — Paul Sonne, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The site, designed as a Christian camp, had cabins, a shower facility, a mess hall, and a small chapel.
    — Adam Piore, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The camp has cabins and tents, a mess hall, a nature trail and a wheelchair-accessible, Olympic-size swimming pool.
    — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Evacuees curled up in sleeping bags on the floor and on couches in the mess hall, fighting off the effects of seasickness as the boat gently swayed across the sea.
    — Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • Trump’s critics have never let him off the hook over military deferments that kept him from dining in a mess hall in Vietnam.
    — David K. Li, Fox News, 9 June 2018
  • In Ten Kliks South, these questions are debated in the mess hall at the descriptive level.
    — Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Tonight’s dinner, served in the mess hall, includes quinoa, steak, chicken, sautéed green beans, roasted potatoes, farmer’s salad, and homemade crème brûlée for dessert.
    — James Nestor, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2018

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