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

Silent Sam shrugged his tiny shoulders and buried his head in the lunchtime milkbowl.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques