lunchtime

Example Sentences

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At lunchtime on a recent weekday, businesspeople in suits sat at white-tablecloth tables in the main dining room, where the walls are wrapped in cherry-wood wainscoting and heavy blue curtains frame the windows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

The lunchtime crowd — high schoolers, blue-collar types, the elderly — waited patiently for their orders.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

But by the time lunchtime had arrived on the East Coast on Monday, U.S. stocks were in much better shape.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

Around lunchtime, more than 240,000 homes and businesses were without power in Massachusetts, 28,000 in New Jersey and 20,000 in Delaware, according to tracking website PowerOutage.com.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026

Jay didn’t care too much about the learning part of it, but he liked school because he got to play ball and dominoes with the other boys at lunchtime.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce