lunch
noun
a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
are lunching
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present progressiveof lunch.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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In Washington and New York, people are lunching on salads composed of fresh and often local ingredients at Chop’t, while the similar Mixt Greens expands in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2012
On those frequent days when the marlin are lunching someplace else and the tuna are laughing at lures, the smart thing to do is catch a shark.
From Time Magazine Archive
We are lunching together in a wonderful hotel.
From The Enchanted Canyon by Honoré Morrow
We are lunching with your next door neighbor, Mrs. Gray.
From Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
"Some of those boys from the camp are lunching with me, and they'll never forgive me if I'm late."
From The War-Workers by E.M. Delafield
