substantial meal
Example Sentences
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Venues could also be barred from serving alcohol to anyone not sitting down with a substantial meal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
While Kardashian’s role was as delicious and ephemeral as a piece of cotton candy, Lesley Manville’s part in Murphy’s series “Grotesquerie” was the real substantial meal.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024
This included any pub stops only being allowed at premises which serve a "substantial meal" with alcohol bought.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2023
A scotch egg is definitely a substantial meal, Michael Gove has said, as he performed a screeching U-turn on his earlier controversial position that it constituted merely a starter.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 1, 2020
Lunch of soup, bread and jam, and cocoa was at 1:00 P.M., tea was at 4:00 P.M., and dinner, the most substantial meal of the day, was at 6:00 P.M.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
