dinner dance

Example Sentences

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Now I'm self-conscious, and my stuffy law firm hosts a dinner dance — should I avoid the dance floor?

From Washington Post

Then, a few years later and six months pregnant, she needed an outfit for a dinner dance and didn’t want to buy something that she would probably never wear again.

From The Guardian

With its hurried construction, the hotel took on the elegant “dress of terra-cotta tiles” near the end of February 1924, and by Dec. 6, 1924, a dinner dance celebrated the opening of the Olympic, the city’s “grand hotel.”

From Seattle Times

We then went through this dinner dance for almost an hour of her wanting to hang out with me, her dad trying to coax her back onto his lap by alternating begging and threatening, me encouraging her to eat but also trying to suggest to my husband that he put her in the high chair and have a more rational meal time.

From Slate

The one-liners in the country club dinner dance scene are pure Rodney.

From New York Times