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 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
Some may consider Stouffer’s a metonym for TV dinner.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 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
Corn is in the non-dairy creamer and the Cheez Whiz, the frozen yogurt and the TV dinner, the canned fruit and the ketchup.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
