How to Use soup kitchen in a Sentence

soup kitchen

noun
  • All Saints’ soup kitchen was born.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The meat is then frozen and sent to a food pantry or soup kitchen.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 5 Nov. 2025
  • For many, the soup kitchens had been their only sources of food for months.
    — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2025
  • There is the teacher who now peels potatoes in a soup kitchen.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Donate to or volunteer at a food bank or soup kitchen.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Go to a soup kitchen, go to your church, go anywhere, talk to your friends and neighbors.
    — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The first large group arrived on buses at a soup kitchen near downtown.
    — Sandra Dibble, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2022
  • Where would a soup kitchen be without the volunteers who serve the food?
    — Cindy Hamann, Houston Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Corey works at a soup kitchen that serves the unhoused, many of them mentally ill.
    — Longreads, 3 Feb. 2026
  • His parish has hosted a soup kitchen on the same corner for over 30 years.
    — Sam Russek, Curbed, 7 Apr. 2022
  • These food pantries and soup kitchens have become part of an ongoing way to make ends meet.
    — Rex Huppke, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • At the city's biggest soup kitchen, some parents have even tried to give their children away.
    — Christine Armario, Fox News, 13 July 2018
  • There were unpaid bills, and feelings of shame from having to go to a soup kitchen in search of a meal.
    — Star Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Perhaps putting down that tennis racket and heading over to a soup kitchen?
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2018
  • The coalition for the homeless runs a mobile soup kitchen every night.
    — Cnn Staff, CNN, 2 Apr. 2020
  • If a workout isn’t for you, try singing in a choir or volunteering at a soup kitchen.
    — Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2022
  • People visiting the soup kitchen aren't able to sit in front of laptops or phones all day.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The volunteer in the busy soup kitchen is engaged in a way the donor sending in a check is not.
    — Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 25 May 2021
  • The meat from the geese was offered to several soup kitchens and shelters, but it was turned down.
    — Indianapolis Star, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Five mornings a week, two white vans pull up to the curb outside the soup kitchen in downtown York.
    — Aubrey Whelan, Philly.com, 11 May 2018
  • Kanbe’s also distributes free food to 50 food pantries and soup kitchens around the city.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Spriestersbach’s main contact with the outside world, aside from the soup kitchen, seemed to be the police.
    — New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • Our parents were very much plugged into charitable work at the soup kitchen.
    — Lauren Green, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
  • The soup kitchen that Andres plans to reopen to host visitors?
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022
  • To find a pantry or soup kitchen that could use your help, go to the New York Cares website.
    — Nikita Stewart and Todd Heisler Elaine Chen and Nikita Stewart, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
  • This is Uruguay's version of a soup kitchen during the pandemic.
    — Darío Klein and Rafael Romo, CNN, 3 May 2021
  • Monique, who asked for safety reasons that her last name not be used, read about the clinic on a flyer at a soup kitchen.
    — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2022
  • When the production of a play upstairs meant leftover food, a crew member brought it down to the soup kitchen.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 23 July 2025
  • On the sidewalk outside, the bums — as Camila called them — were lined up for breakfast at the soup kitchen.
    — Lauren Sandler, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2020
  • One Seoul soup kitchen has been a reliable source of food, warmth, and company for more than three decades.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2025

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