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• In the largely intact stolovaya, or canteen, the kitchens had rusting cookers.2007 August 26, Alison Smale, “‘We All Live in a Red Submarine ...’”, in New York Times. From the entry stolovaya
• How about meeting me in the canteen over a Wienerschnitzel in a quarter of an hour ?1976, Torben Nielsen, Marianne Helweg, A Gallowsbird's Song, HarperCollins. From the entry wienerschnitzel
• I had some beno in my canteen and I took a few nips to steady me.1925, Cosmopolitan, page 18. From the entry beno
• The rumpus started later on that evening, as soon as the man-haul dropped off the workers at the wet canteen .2023, Peter F Barry, For Pete’s Sake. From the entry man-haul
• This one works in the canteen and has a nicer figure than the bony ones you see in Berlin."2018, Justine Saracen, Berlin Hungers. From the entry lumpy jumper
• My tin canteen cup was too hot to touch.2005, Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 343. From the entry canteen cup
• One of my fursonae had a neat canteen like that once, but lacking opposable thumbs, had no way to use it.2005 September 15, Ostrich!, “Why don't any fursonas have these?”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet), retrieved 20 Apr 2022. From the entry fursonae
• To my shame, I've been as guilty of macho bollocks in this regard as the dustiest canteen cowboy.1998, Robert Newman, Manners, page 71. From the entry canteen cowboy
• Cleans, vying for the whitest hats and the fullest canteens.1967, Stewart L. Udall, Address at the Second Annual Conference on Water Resources. From the entry Mr. Clean
• Five soldiers had been sandwiched and coffeed at the Elks canteen, were a little short of money, needed haircuts.1942 August 31, “Who Clipped the Soldiers’—Hair?”, in Harrisburg Telegraph, volume CXII, number 206, Harrisburg, Pa., second section, page 9. From the entry coffee
• Proceed to nearest canteen and there annex liquor stores.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry parching
• The alleged perpetrator, named Vladislav Roslyakov, is said to have run from room to room as he fired, starting in the area near the canteen.2018 October 17, “Crimea attack: Gun attack at Kerch college kills 19”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2018. From the entry Vladislav
• We asked the canteen to lend us a knife for a minute, I cut up all the kalachs and the babkas into thirty-three parts.2018, Grunia Slutzky-Kohn, translated by the David Azrieli Foundation, “The Festival”, in Memories of War, Montreal, Que., →OCLC, page 89. From the entry kalach
• As a precaution against losing access to the canteen, many of the prisoners might decide to keep more mackerel under their beds.2016, Charles Wheelan, Naked Money: A Revealing Look at Our Financial System. From the entry mack
• These shadows, black as the earth they emerged from, were wearing what looked like dull German helmets, their webgear and canteens chinging as they ran.2004, David J. Morris, Storm on the Horizon: Khafji — The Battle that Changed the Course of the Gulf War, Free Press, published 2004, →ISBN. From the entry ching
• What the Boultings earlier Desert Victory did for the front line here, this film does for the canteen cowboy and the Whitehall warrior.1984, Geoff Hurd, National fictions: World War Two in British films and television, page 40. From the entry canteen cowboy
• They went into the little room again at about a quarter to nine, freshened by a meal in the canteen and a cigarette.1952, Nevil Shute, chapter 6, in The Far Country, London: Heinemann. From the entry freshen
• But I traded my slouch hat to a Tommy for his helmet, got eight canteens of water, and returned to Reserve Gully.1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 113. From the entry slouch hat
• “Playgrounds and canteens are denied catchphrases,” he writes in the Radio Times, fretting that “the art will be lost.” Which begs the question: am I bovvered?2018 September 18, Brian Logan, “Catchphrase comedy is dead. Am I bovvered?”, in The Guardian. From the entry bovver
• Each wing had a daddy, who would rule, usually with an iron fist, and accept tribute (by way of canteen items and favours done) from other prisoners.2015, Noel “Razor” Smith, “The Language of the Greybar Hotel”, in The Criminal Alphabet: An A–Z of Prison Slang, London: Penguin Books…. From the entry daddy
• By going to the canteen as soon as it opened some people hoped to cadge money, or one or more cans, or at least a 'sippy'.2002, David McKnight, From Hunting to Drinking, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry sippy
• She genuinely believed that the ' working classes ' had ' different blood from ours, rougher ' and that this caused the fugg in the canteen.1950, Catherine MacFarlane Carswell, Lying awake: an unfinished autobiography and other posthumous papers. From the entry fugg
• English and Kiswahili might be Kenya’s official languages, but pupils tumbling out of school and students in the university canteens chatter to each other in Sheng, to their teachers’ despair.2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower. From the entry sheng

Meaning of canteen

1. noun A water bottle, flask, or other vessel, typically used by a soldier or camper as a bottle for carrying water or liquor for drink.
2. noun A military mess kit.
3. noun A box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc.

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How do you use canteen in a sentence?

Canteen is used as a noun. For example: “He ordered a salad at the canteen.”

What is a short sentence with canteen?

“He ordered a salad at the canteen.”

What does canteen mean?

Canteen means a water bottle, flask, or other vessel, typically used by a soldier or camper as a bottle for carrying water or liquor for drink.