TV dinner

Example Sentences

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If you want to wear rainbow chard, a sardine tin, or a TV dinner in your hair, Lennick has a clip for that, though the company's bestseller is a strawberry.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

To latchkey children in the ’80s, the occasional sleazy teacher was as familiar as divorce or a TV dinner.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2022

To my childhood self, it was the south Indian equivalent of green peas from the classic American TV dinner: the prerequisite something-green on the plate, the unpopular party guest somehow included on every guest list.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2021

I spent middle school as a latchkey kid, riding two public buses to get home and once there, often ended up spending evenings alone and warming up a frozen TV dinner.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2021

My TV dinner tasted like a commercial break.

From "Sunny" by Jason Reynolds