dinner

Example Sentences

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This whole thing started around 30 years ago around our family dinner table.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2026

For her, the loss now lives in smaller memories: the dinner the night before Javed left for Ahmedabad, "so merry," she recalled.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

She remembers how friends envied her freedom; while they were tied down with dinner duty, their kids’ homework, and college savings, Kant spent her evenings painting and didn’t think twice about going out on weeknights.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Greg said he met Anna at a dinner party in 2018 and it was a “love-at-first sight situation.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

‘Sounds great but I can’t stay for dinner, sorry,’ she says.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler