dinner
noun
the main meal of the day, eaten in the evening or at midday.
dinnerless
-
a word derived from
dinner.
Example Sentences
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Helped out, Mrs. Houghton found she had sprained her ankle, went dinnerless back to the embassy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alex always made us laugh, even on those dinnerless nights.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
A dinnerless niece and her dinnerfull uncle brushed their teeth together in the Hotel Sea Queen bathroom.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
It is mild, and it isn't wet—not here and now; and it is—for me—thanks to more than Machiavellian cunning, more dinnerless than it has, really, ever been.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
With wrathful eyes he swept the scene before him, losing not one detail of scolding woman, shrieking child, dinnerless table, and inky chaos.
From The Road to Understanding by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
