Example Sentences

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Guests in tuxedos and gowns entered the hotel through checkpoints on the surrounding streets by showing a dinner ticket or a copy of an invite to one of several predinner receptions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

Doug Zellers, general manager and co-owner of Ray’s Boathouse, the venerable fine dining restaurant next to the sea lions, had likened them to predinner entertainment.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2022

You don’t need three types of predinner snacks and five sides.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2021

Now, instead of shift meals during the predinner lull, workers take turns ordering delivery and eat underground.

From The Verge • Sep. 13, 2021

First, he made a big batch of wojapi, then a predinner tea, infused with wild hyssop leaves and sweetened with a little maple syrup.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2016