lunch
noun
a light midday meal between breakfast and dinner; luncheon.
have lunched
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present perfectof lunch.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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We could have lunched here - the Blues City Memphis-style Barbecue smoker smelled mighty good - but someone had recommended the deli at nearby Country Aire Natural Foods Market.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 27, 2016
Workers on the edge of the city's downtown business district have lunched on street corners instead of park benches to avoid becoming part of a reenactment of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 classic The Birds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Zaidee was not in the least particular, or, perhaps, she would not have lunched on woolly worms.
From Cricket at the Seashore by Harriet Roosevelt Richards
"But you must have lunched hundreds of times in such places."
From Septimus by William John Locke
Luckily for my friend we happened to be near, otherwise instead of our eating bear's meat, the bear might have lunched quietly off Kuzundam in the shady corridors of the "Fifthavenuehotel."
From The Last American A Fragment from The Journal of Khan-li, Prince of Dimph-Yoo-Chur and Admiral in the Persian Navy by F. W. (Frederick William) Read
