How to Use diner in a Sentence

diner

noun
  • Then there’s the running of the food from the kitchen to the diner.
    — Lisa Shames, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The place has an old school feel to it, like a diner out if the 70s.
    — cleveland, 6 July 2021
  • The booths in the back have a sort of diner feel to them, which is cozy and retro.
    — Shivani Vora, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Part of the ground floor space was also home to Parks and Rec diner.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
  • End the night at Jay’s diner, the best place for hangover food.
    — Lee Middleton, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Dec. 2024
  • When the friend informed Combs, Combs grabbed three guns and told James to drive to the diner.
    — Jenna Sundel joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
  • The scene in a diner at the end has a tasty tongue-in-cheek fatalism.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Vance meets Gibbs at the diner and gives him a sat phone and the use of McGee on the final leg of his quest.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The first scene of Dead Ringers takes place in a greasy-spoon diner after dark.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
  • On the East Coast, a diner is more than just a short-order grill.
    — Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • My kids go to school here, to church here, to the diner here, to tee-ball practice here.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 8 Mar. 2022
  • When the charcuterie is to be the main meal, have 1 ½ to 2 ounces each of meat and cheese per diner.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Not the brunch vibes the diners were going for, and also, serves him right.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • It’s called octreotide when the blood untucks the napkin of the diner.
    — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
  • That’s all the diner was serving, since the power was still out.
    — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
  • In one of the film’s opening scenes, Walsh sits in a sunny diner.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Ben is best friends with Corey, his co-worker at the diner.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 12 Dec. 2022
  • At the kosher diner, a third of the customers used to be Arab, said Stéphane Bsiri, the manager.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2024
  • But when the diner door opened, the finale just ... ended.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The two went to lunch with some classmates at a local diner.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2022
  • The diner should have a whole smorgasbord to choose from.
    — arkansasonline.com, 1 Mar. 2025
  • If that doesn’t take you back, the oldie hits piping through the diner’s speakers sure will.
    — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2024
  • In the language of food service, a diner is not a customer but a guest.
    — Ligaya Mishan Kyoko Hamada Victoria Petro-Conroy, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Weisz and Birch met up, first at a pub in London and later in a diner in New York.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Does Hall feel pressure filling the shoes of such a beloved diner?
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Vicky Barnes was the heartbeat of the diner who knew just about every customer who walked through the door.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Then head out for brunch at Babo, an all-day diner in Midtown.
    — Sarah Bence, AFAR Media, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The jukebox, photos and snarky neon signs went to auction when the diner closed in the early 2000s.
    — Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Seema Prasad, proprietor of the Nashville farm-to-table bistro Miel, trains servers to ask questions that will help send diners in the right direction.
    — Maggie Hennessy, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 May 2025
  • Early in our courtship, Yassir spoke romantically of New York’s late-night diners and constant goings-on.
    — Hannah Benson, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025

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