How To Use Lunchtime In A Sentence

  • The Year 9 mentors are trained by children's charity Childline and run lunchtime support clubs as well as a drop-in centre where younger students can call in for advice or help.
  • Around lunchtime we stopped in Christchurch, which is a much larger city than I had expected. Stonetable.org » 2003 » December
  • AS THE chug of a train rumbles overhead, Andy Arnold takes a seat amid the lunchtime bustle of the Arches theatre bar in Glasgow's city centre.
  • We must make sure that this meeting doesn't lap over into lunchtime,because we have other arrangements.
  • For the moment, though, London is making the most of it, and I spent lunchtime sat in Soho Square reading a rival magazine amid the topless cuties.
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  • So why all the beastly transmogrifications, I ask Kay over our lunchtime bowls of coconut and lime soup.
  • On the day of the attack, a gang of youths had marched into the school's foyer at lunchtime.
  • In fact, I was pretty sure that the latest romances were the major topics of the staffroom at recesses and lunchtime breaks.
  • Lunchtime is the busiest with Temple barristers and solicitors grabbing a quick bite and drink before a dash back to the courts. Times, Sunday Times
  • I heard Rene on "ello-ello" this lunchtime (sad, I know!) using the word "didicoy". Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
  • I fancy a stiff drink this lunchtime to steady my nerves!
  • She felt so sick that it was lunchtime before she could drag herself out of bed and come downstairs.
  • But there's also direct access from the village to over 250km of piste, meaning parents can ski to their hearts 'content and still be back to meet the kids at lunchtime. The Guardian World News
  • When lunchtime came Cassie sat where she usually did, under the tree reading.
  • So what I've been doing all along at lunchtime is unplugging the 3 different cables (power, DSL, keyboard/mouse adapter) from the back of the laptop and carting it up the hall to the kitchen for podcast playback while preparing and munching a sandwich. Bluetooth headset for podcast listening convenience
  • Drove down to the city center in the early afternoon and found a bar in which the lunchtime trade was brisk but not clamorous. THE HELLBOUND HEART
  • The protest followed three days of lunchtime demonstrations by power workers and a three-day campaign of non-cooperation with management.
  • Let's split up now and meet again at lunchtime.
  • They had a great relationship and would play cards or chess together at lunchtime. The Sun
  • A quick squint at lunchtime allows residents of this upmarket pile to decide whether or not there is someone sufficiently interesting there to make the short walk down the Mound worthwhile.
  • One lunchtime, a Ukrainian theatre producer friend showed my daughters photos of the cats she had bought to soothe her nerves during the revolution. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her body was not discovered until shortly after lunchtime yesterday when officers found it concealed in a shippon, or cowshed.
  • The lunch mural, for want of a better title, strikes an altogether different chord — that of an evacuated spring-blossomy babbling-brook alpine hinterland glorious people-scape, in which the principal technical challenge for the artist was to crank up the volume of the foliage and the foreground blossoms, whilst reining in the waters, because for obvious reasons the plash and gurgle of cataracts can be counterproductive at lunchtime. The Mural II
  • At lunchtime at St Peter's Primary School in East Bridgeford, Nottinghamshire, the children pile chopped tomatoes, cucumber and lettuce on their plates from the huge bowlfuls laid out every lunchtime.
  • On one day, the coffee drinkers were given a 250-milligram dose of caffeine in the morning and again at lunchtime, equivalent to four cups of coffee in total.
  • Lunchtime brings out young-ish men in khakis and button-down shirts who avoid the homeless sleeping on benches.
  • At lunchtime I ascend the stairs to the main canteen and take a noodle and stirfry meal at the subsidised price.
  • He spent all lunchtime chatting up girls at the library instead of planning our report.
  • Lunchtime is the busiest with Temple barristers and solicitors grabbing a quick bite and drink before a dash back to the courts. Times, Sunday Times
  • One lunchtime he came back late and a colleague had to cover for him.
  • It was approaching lunchtime and Jake's stomach was rumbling, but there were still a few more members of staff to speak to before he could think about eating.
  • But after a while, they got used to snacking on fruit rather than crisps and having sandwiches at lunchtime rather than chips.
  • They are also the most likely to have a meeting at lunchtime. The Sun
  • The savage lunchtime attack shocked other staff and pupils at the school. The Sun
  • Two things about DMT caught my eye: Sometimes lunchtime lasted loger than expected—aberrant bad trips had been known to last four or five days—and unlike LSD, its effects were potentiated—intensified—by the administration of Thorazine and other phenothiazine tranquilizers. Over the Edge
  • It's lunchtime for Timmy Armstrong and his stepfather is cutting up prepared venison for the little boy. Whitetail News Roundup
  • A complimentary comment about a recent survey ensured that colleague Michael joined me one sunny lunchtime.
  • The slimmers attended lunchtime clubs, which gave them the opportunity to support each other, exchange tips, share recipes, and gain motivation.
  • Others have been entrenched since yesterday lunchtime. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the findings were met with a mixed reaction from lunchtime drinkers in the pavement bars and cafes of Manchester yesterday.
  • At lunchtime the editor of the East African Standard telephoned the princess's secretary, Martin Charteris, at the Outspan to ask if the teleprinter reports were true. The day Princess Elizabeth became Queen
  • The days of the lunchtime pint have gone. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here in the tea stalls of Islamabad, crowds gather at lunchtime for a bite to eat.
  • The package still hadn't arrived by lunchtime.
  • The floodwater has left his business devastated, with a water mark more than a foot high still visible yesterday lunchtime.
  • To get to our Saturday lunchtime sessions, we have to rush back from judo and shove down a sandwich while I call a taxi and pray it will come at a reasonable time. Diary of a separation
  • The morning went by pretty busily until about lunchtime when I got a call from the people publishing my book.
  • Usually I only have a snack at lunchtime.
  • At playtime and lunchtime I always wanted to keep on working on my music.
  • At lunchtime we halt near a small waterfall, and with enough wood lying around we soon have spicy sambhar to go with boiled rice.
  • Dom is doing the lunchtime newsbeat show and then taking Fin for a swimming lesson sign in to contribute to this page. BBC Blog Network
  • He stayed in work for about 1 month, then on pay day went off at lunchtime, leaving his jacket on his chair.
  • TV3 launched its national on-air campaign with the first of a series of spot broadcasts at lunchtime yesterday.
  • Tim left, ate a quick sandwich, and sat stakeout from 11: 30 to 2: 30, in case Bowrick decided to make a lunchtime stop. THE KILL CLAUSE
  • It's lunchtime in Dublin and the city is heaving with people; gaggles of students, young office workers, couples, women with babies in buggies.
  • It's lunchtime and Mykola has already been working for more than five hours and his yellow overalls are caked in mud and grime.
  • You'll also find freshly baked pizza and gourmet burgers if you fancy a quick lunchtime snack. The Sun
  • Usually I only have a snack at lunchtime.
  • Here is a list of jobs you must finish before lunchtime. Times, Sunday Times
  • I see it's approaching lunchtime, so let's take a break.
  • Sitting in the pub at lunchtime with his nibs, a pint and a good book was far more entertaining and diverting.
  • Police arrived around lunchtime to clear the way and there were angry scenes with protesters. The Sun
  • Ohhhhhh, so it's lunchtime is it, Ma?" said someone and the class laughed but made no move to close their books. Archive 2005-03-01
  • At lunchtime the next day as I sat in my room semi-happily munching on one of Steve's awesome calzone's and shoving books and magazines into packing boxes, my phone rang.
  • Tim left, ate a quick sandwich, and sat stakeout from 11: 30 to 2: 30, in case Bowrick decided to make a lunchtime stop. THE KILL CLAUSE
  • He just crouches on the corner at lunchtime and occasionally bays, like a wolf or coyote.
  • Members will also have a hance to study the Afrikaans version of the Bill, which is expected to be available by lunchtime. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • By lunchtime yesterday it was 300,000 hits and counting. Times, Sunday Times
  • At lunchtime, bearded students perform their ablutions along a long row of taps before going off to pray.
  • At lunchtime she rang him up, and he answered the phone with a thick voice, as though suffering from a hangover.
  • There are five lunchtime catwalk shows, showcasing new designers, colleges and alternative fashion labels.
  • Leicester in the lunchtime kick-off tomorrow will be an early judgment day. The Sun
  • It would take a brave man to predict the eleven who will take to the field at lunchtime on Wednesday.
  • There will also be linkage to the town centre from the Industrial Estate to facilitate workers at lunchtime.
  • The snow gets slushy by lunchtime, sometimes earlier if the weather is really warm, but nobody cares.
  • They dish up spicy lentils and warm injera, a flat bread, to lunchtime guests.
  • Paul Reynolds, their crime correspondent filed a report at lunchtime about the arrest of the suspect and the mistress.
  • The kitchen cooks almost no beef and only a couple of seafood dishes, but at lunchtime, they serve vegetarian and non-vegetarian thali, a taste plate of curries and other concoctions.
  • At lunchtime the opportunity cost of letting you take up a table for four is substantial.
  • I sometimes have meetings around lunchtime too. The Sun
  • I have been insomniac, dyspeptic, paranoid and weepy, mostly after hours but occasionally at lunchtime, sequestered between my big bookshelf and my desk.
  • I suspected something was wrong when I noticed her curtains were still shut at lunchtime.
  • Not in the neglectful sense: she was, for most of my childhood, a stay-at-home mom who baked cookies and led Girl Guide troops and did crafts and told hour upon hour of bedtime stories and lunchtime stories, and camptime stories, and going-for-a-walk stories, and riding-in-the-car stories... All About My Mother
  • I ate my lunch leisurely with my feet up on the sofa in front of the lunchtime news.
  • One day last week my good lady asked me to pick her up from the office at lunchtime, which I did.
  • Schools should lock children in at lunchtime to boost take-up of canteen meals, a catering expert claimed yesterday.
  • The following morning Miss Cadden's friends believed she had gone out to an exam and she was not seen until lunchtime, by which point she was rambling, incoherent and unable to help herself.
  • We paddled vigorously until lunchtime, when we found a sandbar in the middle of the river.
  • We are looking at smartening it up and putting in an external food serving area the pupils could use at break and lunchtime.
  • Apparently, the new dictum in the National Party is that if women members disagree with their leader, they are gone by lunchtime.
  • Decided around lunchtime that I wanted some Starbucks coffee, and more specifically a frappucino, and even more specifically a Pumpkin Spice frap, so I made the trek across the street to get a cup. New York, Day Three « the j. botter weblog
  • It's an exaggeration to say that Boswell and his contemporaries would start the day with a tuppeny tart, get blotto at lunchtime and join in a riot on the way home but not much of an exaggeration.
  • Fine, go to your local and drink four pints at lunchtime. Times, Sunday Times
  • We should all go out at lunchtime and have a glass of something. The Sun
  • We should all go out at lunchtime and have a glass of something. The Sun
  • On the lunchtime menu, the grilled poussin (with a pile of spring vegetables and a slathering of mustard sauce) is cooked to crispy perfection.
  • Make a note of the orchestra's Tuesday lunchtime concert at the same venue on August 10.
  • February 13, 2006 8: 32 PM bibliobibuli said ... oh heck, what have i started! the world and her brother will be looking for love in kino tomorrow lunchtime ... just make yourselves visible with a red rose, hey? and why not pass the invitation on by sms and blog and increase the gene pool? More Love Among the Bookshelves
  • Here is a list of jobs you must finish before lunchtime. Times, Sunday Times
  • This attack on democratic rights is in response to the campaign by many present and former employees for the reinstatement of the 1,300 dismissed workers through go-slows, lunchtime pickets and petitions.
  • I walked up and down Tottenhan Court Road with Mark at lunchtime in a vain attempt to stave off unconsciousness.
  • The sandwich bar is generally packed at lunchtimes.
  • For some reason they put me in mind of ravenous guests back at the resort, cruising the stacked buffet counters for the tastiest titbits at lunchtime.
  • The savage lunchtime attack shocked other staff and pupils at the school. The Sun
  • Come on, Rip Van Winkle , wake up! It's nearly lunchtime.
  • The savage lunchtime attack shocked other staff and pupils at the school. The Sun
  • He will leave at lunchtime the following day. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘I'll do all the rego and stuff, pick it up at lunchtime.’
  • Drove down to the city center in the early afternoon and found a bar in which the lunchtime trade was brisk but not clamorous. THE HELLBOUND HEART
  • The lunchtime menu is more than adequate to satisfy the biggest appetite.
  • Lunchtime in Amsterdam and my head is feeling a little fuzzy. Times, Sunday Times
  • He returned from a lunchtime drinking session with his business cronies.
  • These lunchtime performances continue to be popular with staff, patients and visitors alike.
  • It was lunchtime for the world, breakfast time at the manor when I arrived. DEAD BEAT
  • Cheryl doesn't have to worry about social opprobrium - she will be dead by lunchtime.
  • Work … lunchtime laptop in docking station, 21″ monitor perched on top. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Where I Sit: Who Reads The Smart Mobs Blog?
  • It is as if an entire nation that once ate meat and two veg at lunchtime now eats only sandwiches.
  • Gordon came back from the supermarket one lunchtime with a day-old copy of The Times. TIME OF THE WOLF
  • No queues or canteen chaos - good news for those seeking a quiet lunchtime retreat. Times, Sunday Times
  • Drinking a beer at lunchtime makes me feel dozy all afternoon.
  • Pan-fried Louisiana crab cakes with remoulade sauce and Cobb salad with creamy tarragon sauce are perennial lunchtime favorites.
  • Buying my bronzer in the chemists yesterday lunchtime, the sweet little old lady at the till smiled at me and said: ‘Ooh, going anywhere nice?’
  • The workers plan to continue lunchtime protests and will wear black armbands at work to show they oppose privatisation.
  • Most of us were too busy to indulge in heavy lunchtime drinking.
  • But even when lunchtime came, she hadn't even been to the nurse.
  • A notice indicated that at lunchtime and in the evening you could indulge in steak and kidney pudding, chicken and leek pudding or spring rolls with chips or jacket potatoes.
  • I'm sure it was pure coincidence but the second wave of women began arriving Just as the lunchtime news began. Times, Sunday Times
  • So that lunchtime kip under your desk is entirely justified.
  • Police arrived around lunchtime to clear the way and there were angry scenes with protesters. The Sun
  • Lunchtime in Amsterdam and my head is feeling a little fuzzy. Times, Sunday Times
  • If someone wants a bottle of something healthy and delicious at lunchtime with a sandwich, might they not also want it at home with their evening meal, at a gastropub at the weekend, or for their children in a school lunchbox?
  • It was nearing lunchtime on a recent Thursday, and ninth-grader Noah Schnacky of Windermere, Fla., really did not want to go to algebra. My Teacher Is an App
  • The savage lunchtime attack shocked other staff and pupils at the school. The Sun
  • It's not a bad way to spend a Tuesday lunchtime, in a rehearsal room in Clapham High Street, south London, listening to Simon Russell Beale expound on centaurs, Little Nell and the idealisation of childhood, modern Pimlico, 19th-century German symphonic music, his benign attitude to errant theatregoers with mobiles ( "Their own mortification is their punishment") and murder. Simon Russell Beale: 'I believe passionately in live theatre'
  • Got a favourite lunchtime haunt? Times, Sunday Times
  • Instead of delivering twice a day, including in the morning, it now delivers once, at lunchtime.
  • Perhaps one day I'll find a reason to call in for a lunchtime sandwich.
  • It was still Mark's lunchtime and Daniel could hear the chirrup and mutter of voices from the studio behind him. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • Tacos, felafel and even schnitzel are sold out of brightly coloured vans to queuing city workers at lunchtime. Times, Sunday Times
  • They had a great relationship and would play cards or chess together at lunchtime. The Sun
  • The sandwich bar is generally packed at lunchtimes.
  • Getting higher volumes of business at lunchtime is another priority.
  • Poor, simple Eddie, whose weary smile and ubiquitous brown leather waistcoat gave him the air of a long-suffering medieval farrier, was forever being dragged into subplots he couldn't understand when he'd much rather be trudging into the Argee Bhajee for an unhurried lunchtime livener. World Of Lather
  • Lunchtimes on weekends and dinnertimes are spent together eating stew or tagine, soup or blanquette, homemade pizza or risotto, something wholesome, made with love. Jamie Schler: A Table, Les Enfants! Dinner Is Served!
  • We'll get a breath of fresh air at lunchtime.
  • It's lunchtime on the first day of the spring term at St Peter's Church of England Primary School in East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, and the children are heaping their plates with salad.
  • Teresa Annunzio came to school briefly at lunchtime, her head shaven. THE THORN BIRDS
  • On our visit, early one Saturday lunchtime, the restaurant was almost full.
  • A miasma of lunchtime kick-offs, the bete noir of all serious football fans, will now determine who is promoted to the Premier League and who will make the play-offs. Endless sprawl of fixtures fills cups with thin gruel and a bad taste | Paul Hayward
  • Richard Landon, 37, was self-conscious about his 29 st 3lb frame and used to eat pasties and apple turnovers secretly at lunchtime.
  • They ought to have arrived at lunchtime but the flight was delayed.
  • And I'm usually alright in the morning but by about lunchtime in the afternoon I tend to get very irritable and fractious and I'm not quite sure why.
  • In a sandwich bar at lunchtime, a male member of staff with a streaming cold made sandwiches for customers.
  • It was nearing lunchtime when they finally arrived at the palace gates.
  • He came to the warm-up ring just as John was mounting up; his shout, intended to preface a demand for payment at lunchtime, went unheeded. BARN BLIND
  • Then he said to the Americans that the ban would be gone by lunchtime.
  • Although Clare felt that her cockerel was the best that she'd ever bred, she was unprepared for a phone call on Saturday lunchtime telling her that she'd won best of breed. FWi - All News
  • The lunchtime menu is more than adequate to satisfy the biggest appetite.
  • The shop is open from lunchtimeonwards.
  • It was lunchtime and they'd reserved a table for me. Times, Sunday Times
  • If nothing else, you've at least learned of how I spend my lunchtimes.
  • We have our main meal at lunchtime.
  • The following lunchtime, they met at their usual table.
  • It's the kind of place you could meet your mates on a Saturday lunchtime for a natter and nachos, or have an early tea after work, as we did.
  • She would go to the bank tomorrow at lunchtime and withdraw all her money.
  • My advice, come lunchtime, is look for a wheatsheaf painted beside a door and find yourself a bouchon, the traditional Lyonnais bistro named after the straw plugs once used as bottle-stoppers.
  • He returned from a lunchtime drinking session with his business cronies.
  • By the time I had to go into a lunchtime meeting it had slipped almost out of sight. Times, Sunday Times
  • All employees can use a gym on site in Manchester with a badminton court and lunchtime circuit training. Times, Sunday Times
  • By lunchtime, she could introduce herself in Polish, and the children could do likewise in German.
  • One thing's for sure - Andrew Neill's Daily Politics programme and PMQs this lunchtime is going to be an absolute must view show. Charles Clarke's Career Hangs in the Balance
  • Drake and Emily thought it was lunchtime, based on vague hunches and guessing, but mostly on the fact that they were hungry.
  • It was still Mark's lunchtime and Daniel could hear the chirrup and mutter of voices from the studio behind him. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • The sun was shining bright though this lunchtime, so I set off up Sauchihall street with my camera with the intention of taking many photos of things that took my fancy.
  • It was well after lunchtime the next day when they finally came to look for us. Times, Sunday Times
  • I think that the aeroplane is not only useful to make contacts quickly; it is also useful in another way which occurred to me at lunchtime-and that is in getting away from people. The Commonwealth and the League of Nations
  • You'd bring in a bag with the order written on it mine was always a pastie - the once a fortnight I was allowed to have it that is! and they'd deliver it to the classroom at lunchtime. Yankpicking
  • So when I was asked to try out the lunchtime carvery at the Wenlock Arms at Wheldrake last Sunday, when my parents happened to be paying me a visit, I invited them along as well.
  • At lunchtime, there's a choice between the buffet or the set menu.
  • A short season of lunchtime performances will begin this July with a play by Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor.
  • In the summer, Mr. Sandwich staggers with fatigue before lunchtime and that cheap sticky foam becomes an oven.
  • There goes my boss, leaving for the rest of the day, shortly after lunchtime.
  • Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi issued a statement at lunchtime yesterday declaring a state of disaster in the magisterial districts of Cala, Ugie, Elliot, Indwe and Barkly East.
  • To add to the mess, opening hours of the collection office at Otley have been slashed - so anyone wanting to collect registered, undelivered mail will have to collect it before lunchtime - or wait until the next day.
  • Residents of Malton and Norton were today bracing themselves for more flooding after Environment Agency chiefs forecast no let-up in rising water levels until lunchtime today.
  • In need of some lunchtime inspo? The Sun
  • In an interview with the Observer to mark a year in her role as the 79th Commons chaplain, Hudson-Wilkin admits to a "secret prayer" that an outbreak of civility will one day transform Wednesday lunchtimes and end what she calls the "boys' games of yelling and shouting, the noise and all of that. Commons chaplain Rose Hudson-Wilkin warns rowdy MPs
  • Lunchtime bento boxes start at 11, evening set meals from 27. Times, Sunday Times
  • Serving hot food rather than cold requires more lunchtime supervisor staff. The Sun
  • But he is a doubt for today's lunchtime kick-off with an ankle injury. The Sun
  • It will keep you feeling full until lunchtime so you will be less likely to snack. The Sun
  • At lunchtime, all the 25 tapas come in at a ridiculously cheap 1.50, and in the evening remain decently priced at 3.50.
  • Also offered is lunchtime delivery service, which, if you happen to work in the area, is a nice touch - call for details.
  • Five workers also had to leave as around 20 firefighters tackled the lunchtime blaze. The Sun
  • This latest backward glance is more lonely lunchtime housewife than supper-club romance or hell-of-a-day blues.
  • Nowadays every lunchtime sees a procession of pupils to the fast-food shops, where they purchase their batter-covered burgers and greasy chips.
  • She got married one lunchtime and didn't tell her parents until she was four months pregnant, because my father was an actor, and actors then were kind of vagabonds, you know.
  • One Saturday lunchtime, garfish, gemfish, jewfish, skate, salmon and tuna are on the list.
  • At lunchtime he eats a small steak pie and mash. Times, Sunday Times
  • The men have been in regular contact, including their lunchtime meeting in Cardiff. The Sun

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