breakfast
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Pauline Ellis of the Mad Hatter bed and breakfast, said some visitors had cancelled trips because travel costs had become too expensive.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Sitting down for a filling breakfast, instead of mainlining a protein bar, can feel irresponsible.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Last Sunday night, my grocery order arrived without my usual breakfast sandwiches.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
What time is breakfast and what do you eat?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
It was still early in the morning; the tin breakfast plate had not yet been removed from the shelf in the door.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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In Magaluf, a beach town popular among Brits, restaurants serve full English breakfasts and yorkshire pudding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
The feds operate more than a dozen food assistance programs, which provide grocery money for new parents and their toddlers, as well as free school breakfasts and lunches for lower-income children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
For years, when I remembered those breakfasts, I focused on all the times I had said no.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
“It’s a place to help veterans work through the VA, to help veterans job source, to help veterans come together for Taco Tuesdays and breakfasts and dinners,” Chandler says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Bill and Monsieur Delacour were finishing their breakfasts, while Mrs. Weasley stood chatting to them over the frying pan.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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Mitt Romney in 2012 famously declared in Mississippi that he'd just breakfasted on "a biscuit and some cheesy grits" — drawing groans from a crowd who knew he meant cheese grits.
From US News ● Feb. 19, 2016
The well-heeled passengers breakfasted on smoked salmon and pastries, then boarded an air-conditioned Cuban government bus for a day of touring the city.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 7, 2015
One day in May, Rigault breakfasted on Chateaubriand aux truffes; a few days later, the fare included bottles of Pommard, Veuve Clicquot, and Nuits-Saint-Georges.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014
We hastily strung up the ultralight silicone-coated tarp we’d bought specially for the trip, and breakfasted under it in relative comfort.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2013
When he woke up the sky above was dim, not lighter but darker than when they had breakfasted.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Clients include breakfasting Qataris, construction and security guards off overnight shifts and, this week, tourists in soccer jerseys descending on the country, where foreigners, mostly migrant workers, form the bulk of the 3 million population.
From Reuters ● Nov. 24, 2022
In the future, you could be breakfasting on false banana or snacking on pandanus tree fruit.
From BBC ● May 21, 2022
Bonus: This quirk makes stollen the ideal make-ahead treat for all your holiday gifting, breakfasting, and last-minute company needs.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2021
Two majors after that, he won the 2018 PGA Championship in St. Louis after breakfasting on Sunday with a two-shot lead he treated without tremble.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 2019
The disorder left by the breakfasting bears had been cleared away.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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