CANTEEN in a Sentence
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21 example sentences for CANTEEN, such as:
1. He groped blindly for his canteen.
2. so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand.
3. The officers gathered round Denisov's canteen, eating and talking.
4. He grasped his canteen and took a long swallow of the warmed water.
5. He tilted his head afar back and held the canteen long to his lips.
2. so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand.
3. The officers gathered round Denisov's canteen, eating and talking.
4. He grasped his canteen and took a long swallow of the warmed water.
5. He tilted his head afar back and held the canteen long to his lips.
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Meanings and Examples of CANTEEN
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canteen
n. a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers
n. sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc.
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 A man who lay upon the ground at her feet, his head pillowed on his canteen, grinned up companionably at her words.
2 His canteen banged rythmically upon his thigh, and his haversack bobbed softly.
3 He grasped his canteen and took a long swallow of the warmed water.
4 The flap of his cartridge box bobbed wildly, and his canteen, by its slender cord, swung out behind.
5 An'--hol on a minnit--here's my canteen.
6 He made his patient drink largely from the canteen that contained the coffee.
7 He tilted his head afar back and held the canteen long to his lips.
8 He folded it into a manner of bandage and soused water from the other canteen upon the middle of it.
9 He groped blindly for his canteen.
10 Another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him.
11 The officers gathered round Denisov's canteen, eating and talking.
12 This active old servant was unpacking the traveler's canteen and preparing tea.
13 I have one here without the fangs, and Teddy catches it every night to please the folk in the canteen.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
Context Highlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
14 so that the canteen woman can touch the prisoners with her hand.
15 Presently few carried anything but their necessary clothing, blankets, haversacks, canteens, and arms and ammunition.
Example Sentence:
1 Collins filled his canteen from the water barrel and dug out a box of shells for the shotgun.
2 In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a windowless canteen for a ceremony to begin.