dinner

Example Sentences

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The visit will include a state dinner at the White House and the King will deliver an address to Congress.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

They hosted dinner parties with tech moguls with hopes that new billionaires would get involved.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

At dusk they were checked into their rooms, and by dawn’s early light they were gone, only to be replaced at the dinner hour by more recruits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Barr, speaking at a Brookings Institution dinner, called Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the central bank, “well qualified” and said he “knows the terrain.”

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

He wasn’t just washing a little bit for the dinner table.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck