large meal

Example Sentences

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Arsenal, as is their habit, made a very large meal of beating a mediocre Spurs, struck down by injuries but still well short of the standards expected.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2025

When stimulated with laser light, the vgat PAG cells fired and kicked the mouse into hot pursuit of live crickets and non-prey food, even if it had just eaten a large meal.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

What brings us together more than the shared feeling of being incredibly uncomfortable after a large meal?

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2021

A few years ago, her older brother got carsick after a large meal and vomited.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2020

The only explanation she could think of was that he had just finished a very large meal and was feeling so stuffed and lazy he did not want to take the trouble to get up.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien