lunchtime
Americannoun
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lunchtimes
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Origin of lunchtime
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One day he walked in with a flyer he designed to advertise an $18 lunchtime deal for teachers and students.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Smoke still billows over the city center as lunchtime approaches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The school has also invested in a wider range of books in the library, where reading for pleasure at lunchtime is encouraged.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Perpendicular to that, there’s a lunchtime slop-bowl corridor, offering Just Salad, Dig, Cava, and Sweetgreen in one neat little row.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
A halt was called at lunchtime on the banks of a slow, broad river.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
The education secretary wrote to heads to make it clear that all schools should be phone-free for the entire day, including breaktimes and lunchtimes.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
Counter to most of the men on the series, Snook’s husband, actor Dave Lawson, was able to take on parenting responsibilities, bringing their tot to set so they could play during lunchtimes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
In secondary school, Kajoba would spend lunchtimes looking up drama school requirements and learning monologues.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2025
Currently government guidance says that: "All schools should prohibit the use of mobile phones throughout the school day – not only during lessons but break and lunchtimes as well".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024
Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown had taken to haunting Professor Trelawney’s tower room at lunchtimes, and always returned with annoyingly superior looks on their faces, as though they knew things the others didn’t.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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