commissary
Example Sentences
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The state-of-the-art complex has five sound stages, offices and other proper movie studio features such as a mill, commissary and base camp.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026
Their extra room became the commissary, to use an old Hollywood term.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025
The line to buy food or hygiene products at the commissary was so long that sometimes detainees left empty-handed.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025
The Commons has a commissary, a full-service restaurant, a theater complex and an event space for public and private meetings.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025
It was only worth the risk if I were sure where the commissary was: otherwise we might just as well eat the cattle, ourselves.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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