Example Sentences

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As the next day was Saturday, most students would normally have breakfasted late.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

If you have breakfasted early, it will be well to put some gingerbread-nuts or biscuits into your satchel when you go out, as you may become very hungry before dinner.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various

I put his assent down to sheer perversity, for I should have breakfasted in any case.

From The Sixth Sense A Novel by McKenna, Stephen

Doctor Channing I will tell you more of, after I have breakfasted alone with him next Wednesday. . . .

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John

We have breakfasted, we have dined, and a fight is toward.

From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis