dinner

Example Sentences

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You stop seeing cooking as a series of opportunities to prove yourself and start seeing it as what it actually is: the ongoing effort to make dinner taste good on a Tuesday.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 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

Some are paying gig workers to record themselves cooking dinner and doing laundry.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

I thought if we had to take the time to sit down to dinner, we’d be too late to see the Case Special come in.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck