dinner lady
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
At lunchtime, dinner lady Mrs Smalley keeps an eye on the children who don't have enough food at home.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2025
Joyce Binks, an 82-year-old retired dinner lady, was one of them and she came despite having lost her husband just three weeks ago.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2021
The Ballymena Daily says Kitty's community remembers her "her working as a dinner lady at St. Louis School."
From Fox News • Jun. 7, 2020
His father was a labourer and his mother a dinner lady at the local school.
From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2012
Her parents ran a school in Northampton, and the dinner lady was her Auntie Corinne, who cooked fish and chips, Caribbean and the occasional Chinese.
From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2011
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
