How to Use commissary in a Sentence

commissary

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  • Oh, and the prison commissary — West had worked there, too, for a year.
    — Tommy Rowan, Philly.com, 12 June 2018
  • None of the hair products sold in the commissary helped.
    — Alaina Demopoulos, Allure, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The area where the body was found used to be the site of housing and the commissary for workers who mined the red ore.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 2 May 2018
  • The money will go to Keefe Group, which runs the jail commissary.
    — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Each month they are allowed to spend up to $320 at the commissary.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2019
  • The man bought Danny coats from guys on the yard and cookies and ice cream from the commissary.
    — Longreads, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The shaking cracked walls in a chapel and school and brought down commissary shelves, Allen said.
    — Christopher Weber, Fox News, 10 July 2019
  • Expect to see a lot more lasagna on the menu at the Nickelodeon commissary.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Tamarind cooks some of their food in the Airstream and some in a portable commissary out back.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Bread for all of the restaurants, bars and food hall stalls will be made at a commissary by chef David Madrid.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Hunter also let Sims out of his cell to go to commissary.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The new space will operate as a coffee shop and commissary in the front and a bakery in the back.
    — Dallas News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The new location means five or ten more jobs in the commissary.
    — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Their search for a commissary kitchen landed them a café space in South Lake Union, the heart of the Amazon lunch crowds.
    — Naomi Tomky, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2020
  • The teenager, who was too young to buy a box of cigarettes at the prison commissary, was stunned.
    — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2017
  • Instead, you’ll be told to buy over-the-counter meds that are offered on commissary.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2020
  • At the commissary, Ramirez quickly relaxed into the role of a boss.
    — chicagotribune.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The food for all three stores is made from scratch every night in HBC’s Bloomfield commissary.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Inmates can buy snacks and other goods in a prison’s commissary, but may not spend more than $360 a month there.
    — Devlin Barrett, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2021
  • The primary goal was to boost the bottom line of the studio commissary, where Gray Line guests would stop for lunch.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Some food was donated, and the rest Thompson bought from the commissary.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Next up: a food commissary where Barajas parks his Outside the Masa truck.
    — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022
  • ICS, for example, is a subsidiary of Keefe Group, the largest prison-commissary provider in the country.
    — Brian Alexander, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2017
  • In addition, a small meat counter and commissary is planned to sell grab-and-go prepared food items.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Just a commissary and a pick-up point, about as stripped down as a culinary enterprise can be.
    — Beth Segal, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Inmates who don’t have money to spend on food in the commissary go hungry.
    — Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, 20 Apr. 2020
  • That's his second place, a commissary in Madisonville where all their meats and sauces and soups are made and can be purchased for home.
    — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The commissary was losing money, so the tourists would be allowed to eat at 3 p.m. in the commissary.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • After hours, the 1,100-square-foot space will double as the butchery and pasta commissary kitchen for all Crown Restaurant Group restaurants, both of which Young will oversee.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 7 May 2024
  • Since then, most state prisons across the US have either started selling electronic tablets out of their commissaries or providing the hardware for free.
    — Gabrielle Caplan, WIRED, 6 May 2024

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