supper
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“Sing for your supper and you’ll get breakfast, songbirds always eat,” the lyrics go, before offering a crucial caveat: “If their song is sweet to hear.”
From Salon ● May 15, 2026
I took my iPhone and our decrepit vacuum into my workshop after supper, googled “Kenmore Progressive vacuum noisy” and found what I wanted—a YouTube video showing how to replace the motor bearings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
"The restaurant we went up to last night for supper, they were all talking about it."
From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026
"I'm finally able to say, 'No, sorry, I'm tired and I'm going to have an early night. Have whatever you want for supper; Daddy is here.'"
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
After supper Mrs. Sasaki brought Mitsue and Eiji to the hospital.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
And having spent years living in and traveling through the South, I’ve also seen what these restaurants mean to people: family road trips, post-church lunches, Friday night suppers punctuated by rocking-chair visits.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2025
The heart of the space is an airy, sophisticated sitting room that connects on the south side to a dining room suggestive of decadent late night suppers in postwar Paris, and an industrial-inflected kitchen.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
Meanwhile Kerry Burley, who has been a regular at Burns suppers for more than a decade, is about to become president of Sandyford Burns Club in Glasgow.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024
Sunday suppers are also when they divvy up things that need to get done around the house.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
“There will be suppers every night, all summer.”
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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