breakfast
noun
the first meal of the day; morning meal.
breakfastless
-
a word derived from
breakfast.
Example Sentences
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All over the country, children go to school breakfastless and stupid with hunger, and the local authorities have no power to feed them as in England, and in most European countries.
From The Open Secret of Ireland by T. M. (Thomas Michael) Kettle
Their claims were greater than his, Stewart thought, and after all it wouldn't harm him to go breakfastless; but just then the landlady appeared again, and drew him through a door opening behind the bar.
From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Burton Egbert Stevenson
By that time Junior had lost himself on the way to Mickey's rooms, spent a night wandering the streets, and breakfastless was waiting before the Iriquois.
From Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter
For fifty-five minutes Jane sat in that chair breakfastless, very casually washed and with the aforesaid Billie Burkeness of hair.
From Love Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart
It came to her as John once more took his good-by, the long kiss and the short one, and went breakfastless away.
From Dr. Sevier by George Washington Cable
