were lunching
- past progressive of lunch.
Example Sentences
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When the Guardian visited, a dozen men and women, some hunched and weather-beaten, were lunching on curry and rice.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2018
We were lunching adjacently in the Palm Court restaurant of the Westfields Marriott hotel, in Chantilly, Virginia.
From The Guardian ● May 30, 2012
Knowland and New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, who were lunching that day with Secretary of State Dulles, angrily reported the uproar to him.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Television Newsman Walter Cronkite and Democratic National Committee Chairman Lawrence O'Brien were lunching in a Washington restaurant when a man who looked just like Henry Kissinger stopped at their table.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I took it for granted that you knew you were lunching with me and I was the host.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir