TV dinner
Example Sentences
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In a nation that invented the likes of the frozen TV dinner, Childers is winding back the clock with technology that would be recognizable to farmers two millenia ago.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
After they have a passive-aggressive fight about the groceries and share a silent, side-by-side TV dinner, Joshua goes upstairs for a shower.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
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
He would fix himself a TV dinner, open a Coke, and sit on his cot listening to the radio.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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