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How to use eatery in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Eatery means a restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food. Example: “Word is that the eatery will reopen soon under new management.”

More sentences with eatery

  • Word is that the eatery will reopen soon under new management.From the entry word is
  • The H Street corridor eatery closed late last year after less than two years.2025 October 23, Ike Allen, “Former Bronze Chef Keem Hughley Is Opening a Seychelles-Inspired Rooftop Bar”, in Washingtonian, archived…. From the entry Keem
  • This longtime West End eatery prepares chicken the way locals like it: curried, fried, jerked, and baked.2016, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's Essential Caribbean, Fodor's Travel, →ISBN. From the entry jerk
  • And the practice is spreading from high-end impresstaurants to casual local eateries.2008, Bill Corsello, Shelley Gallagher, America's Top Restaurants 2009, page 6. From the entry impresstaurant
  • With the exception of cafétérias and self-service restaurants, most eateries take credit cards.2000, Steve Fallon, Michael Rothschild, France, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 202. From the entry cafétéria
  • The area also boasts a wide variety of cafés and restaurants, from casual bagelries to elegant eateries.1992, Bruce Patterson, Alberta: An Altitude SuperGuide, Banff, Alta.: Altitude Publishing, →ISBN, page 250. From the entry bagelry
  • Downtown, Charles Cros's Calabash, an upstairs, over-the-store eatery, offers excellent edibles in unassuming islandy surroundings.1971, Jeanne Harman, Harry E. Harman, Fielding's guide to the Caribbean plus the Bahamas, page 576. From the entry islandy
  • Waverley has plenty of eateries scattered around its 21 platforms, giving opportunities to stock up during our 20-minute connection period.2025 March 19, “Investment pays off in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 1031, page 56. From the entry Waverley
  • With sky-high rents and an endless lineup of buzzy eateries, NYC could be seen as a foodie call free-for-all.2025 June 16, Marissa Matozzo, “From booty call to ‘foodie call’ — free dinner scammers flood dating apps as wallets tighten”, in New York…. From the entry foodie call
  • This future eatery, Mom’s, is a combination bistro, hair salon, art gallery and homey retreat for the hipoisie.2015 August 13, Stephen Holden, “Review: ‘Mistress America,’ a Noam Baumbach Comedy on Getting By in a Backbiting World”, in New York Times. From the entry hipoisie
  • Atoy’s and Tuding’s serve basically the same fried stuff, in the tradition of roadside eateries serving all-day Pinoy breakfast.2014 November, Claude Tayag, Mary Ann Quioc, “Chop-chop—a tale of two Laguna pork chop kings”, in Linamnam: Eating One’s Way Around the…. From the entry daing na bangus
  • With red meat teasing and taunting at nearly every neighborhood eatery, what’s a one-time AAV meat addict supposed to do?2009 November 22, Sam Alcorn, “This is season for giving taste buds a workout”, in The Sunday Item, Sunbury, Pa., →OCLC, page E3, column 3. From the entry the spirit is strong, but the flesh is weak
  • A must-visit eatery specializing in take-out croiffles, SADDLER HAUS refers to the ‘croiffle’, a compound word of croissant and waffle, as a ‘French Waffle’.2021, K-Star Road: Gangnam Travel Guide, page 17. From the entry croiffle
  • Once synonymous with comfort, home-style food, zi char (cooked food in Hokkien) eateries are becoming the hot bed of innovative, if not haute Singaporean cuisine.2008 November 23, Huang Lijie, The Sunday Times, Singapore, page 24. From the entry zi char
  • In a gorgeous old stone-fronted house at a skew-whiff angle to the road, this main-street, mainstream eatery serves big breakfasts, pizzas, burgers, lasagne, focaccias, bruschetta and salads.2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Meg Worby, Lindsay Brown, Paul Harding, Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin, Lonely Planet, page 112. From the entry skew-whiff
  • An Die An Niang This no-frills Shandong eatery at Chaoyang Park West Gate makes great down-home zhou (rice porridge), stuffed pies (xianbing) and some of the biggest baozi in town.2010 February, “Shandong”, in The Beijinger, page 49, column 1. From the entry xianbing
  • For a while he began to speak Japanese, rather slangy, never having seemed to learn it — karoshi for death from overwork, yakitaori-ya for eatery, and gaijin for clumsy foreigner.1976, Bill Henderson, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, Pushcart Press, page 207. From the entry karoshi

Meaning of eatery

  1. noun A restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food.

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Questions about eatery in a sentence

How do you use eatery in a sentence?
Eatery is used as a noun. For example: “Word is that the eatery will reopen soon under new management.”
What is a short sentence with eatery?
“Word is that the eatery will reopen soon under new management.”
What does eatery mean?
Eatery means a restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eatery (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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