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

I spent middle school as a latchkey kid, riding two public buses to get home and once there, often ended up spending evenings alone and warming up a frozen TV dinner.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2021

I found one such TV dinner that included thirty-one ingredients, from guar and xanthan gum to “natural grill flavor.”

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan