heavy meal

Example Sentences

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A heavy meal might be the last thing you want on a hot day – but the athletes recommended against deviating from your usual diet.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2024

Rumsey agrees that eating a heavy meal immediately before climbing into bed might exacerbate acid reflux or make it harder to fall asleep.

From National Geographic • Aug. 16, 2023

It’s a heavy meal of a film, but Hardy brings to it an actorly muscle-mass.

From The Guardian • May 14, 2020

One study from 2004 of 209 heart attack patients in Israel determined that people were more likely to sustain a serious coronary event in the several hours after eating an unusually heavy meal.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2017

We sat at the table dressed in our Shabbat clothes, my father sipping his second glass of tea, both of us a little tired and sleepy from the heavy meal.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok