dinner

How To Use dinner In A Sentence

• The experience was a little like being seated next to a cheerful, open-faced fellow on a long airplane flight who begins talking to you - and then never, ever, ever stops, not even when he has his Salisbury steak dinner in his mouth.
• Ann rather astonished me by saying how she wouldn't mind a plate of egg and chips prior to leaving for the dinner.
• The dinner has highlighted the difficulty for the duke and duchess of how careful they should be about where their charitable donations come from. Times, Sunday Times
• A fellow treats himself and his true love to dinner, a bottle and a night at the bug house at the end of another week of hard work and dutiful child-rearing, comes home happy and at peace, and what does he find?
• -- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
• The dinner was being hosted by a fledgling company he had set up just months before. Times, Sunday Times
• After dinner, the _renvoi_ of Genet was proposed by himself. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
• In other words, he was responsible for formal receptions - known as levees - and dinners.
• He lacks any backbone, as becomes apparent during the toe-curling dinner party that forms the play.
• When I was a kid I loved listening to all the shop talk around the breakfast table and dinner table.