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a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes
an Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea
How To Use afternoon tea In A Sentence
- You can get lighter meals and snacks, as well as afternoon tea, in either the lounge or bar.
- Personal valets glide silently past, afternoon tea is served at exorbitant prices, and trinkets of the previous visitors are left in some of the rooms - Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Noël Coward.
- In prewar days, she had occupied her time with a little leisurely sewing or gardening and reading her library books, her gentle reveries interrupted only by afternoon tea brought to her on a tray.
- The price includes morning coffee, buffet lunch, and afternoon tea.
- Lunch and afternoon tea will be available at the Memorial Hall.
- Afternoon tea, for example, at the legendary Reid's Palace Hotel is just one of a range of charming social customs that woos tourists.
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- Small wonder that this is the place in Madrid for afternoon tea and society weddings.
- Nowadays however, in the average suburban home, afternoon tea is likely to be just a biscuit or small cake and a mug oftea, usually produced using a teabag. Sacrilege!
- A votive candle is placed on the dozen or so tables, part of the ritual of late afternoon tea.