commissary
Example Sentences
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She and her compatriots gather every Sunday outside the Otay Mesa facility to raise money to help detainees buy food in the prison commissary and call their families.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026
Hourlong lines to buy food at the commissary or to make a phone call.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025
To make way for the Campus Project, NBCUniversal demolished the old commissary, a sound-mixing facility and other structures.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025
The leftover money will either go toward the inmates’ commissary accounts or scholarship funds for formerly incarcerated firefighters.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
Army commissary officers, like the one Sam was working for, were buying up a lot of the livestock to feed the troops.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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