TV dinner

Example Sentences

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If you want to wear rainbow chard, a sardine tin, or a TV dinner in your hair, Lennick has a clip for that, though the company's bestseller is a strawberry.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

But your homemade meals don’t have to resemble a frozen TV dinner, with its segmented tray of meat, an amorphous sauce, a scoop of peas or rice and a mysterious, saccharine lump of... jello?

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2025

After they have a passive-aggressive fight about the groceries and share a silent, side-by-side TV dinner, Joshua goes upstairs for a shower.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024

The first time I recall eating this dish was in a TV dinner — those flat, foil-covered trays with little compartments to hold your meat, potatoes and vegetables.

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2022

Yep, my sister and her husband lived in some old silver trailer that was more like a TV dinner tray than a home.

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie