dinnertime
the period set aside for eating dinner.
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How to use dinnertime in a sentence
My sister-in-law got the phone call at dinnertime the night before we were to drive to a Wyoming guest ranch for a five-day, three-generation family vacation.
Covid nixed her 3-generation ranch vacation. Here’s how she pivoted — and how you can, too. | Dina Mishev | September 10, 2021 | Washington PostTo me it felt like a revolution, and it quickly redefined what I was serving at dinnertime.
I may scoop my food onto the plate stove-side, but I set out cloth napkins and glass tumblers with the aim of spending dinnertime catching up on the day’s events.
Tomatoes, eggplant and sausage make a quick sauce for this one-pot pasta | Ann Maloney | July 13, 2021 | Washington PostIn households that got no incentives, the team found that people used soap at dinnertime 36 percent of the time, one to four months after receiving a dispenser.
Small bribes may help people build healthy handwashing habits | Sujata Gupta | May 12, 2021 | Science NewsBaker says in addition to keeping as many walls open as possible, different tables need to be safely spaced apart, especially since people spend so much of dinnertime without masks on.
When it comes to COVID-19 risk, what counts as ‘outdoor’ dining? | Sara Kiley Watson | January 11, 2021 | Popular-Science
As dinnertime came and went, he and his wife and two young children, who had traveled to Beijing, had nothing to eat.
Activist Chen Guangcheng: Let Me Leave China on Hillary Clinton’s Plane | Melinda Liu | May 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTFor most of her childhood, Jenna (not her real name) spent dinnertime staring at a plate of food that she refused to touch.
Pickiness: The Secret Eating Disorder Nobody’s Talking About | Nina Strochlic | March 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThey go home and sleep until nine; then they reel, sleepy, to counting-houses and offices, and doze on desks until dinnertime.
There are a lot of nice girls in school and we had scrumptious fun playing at dinnertime.
Anne Of Green Gables | Lucy Maud MontgomeryAt one o'clock the men, guessing it to be dinnertime, stopped pretending to work and went away.
The Simpkins Plot | George A. BirminghamBy dinnertime there were twenty-five holes in the cardboard strip; by tea-time there were forty!
The Pig Brother and Other Fables and Stories | Laura E. RichardsThere he would labour till two or three o'clock, his usual dinnertime.
Sketch of Handel and Beethoven | Thomas Hanly Ball
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