dinner table

Example Sentences

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After Odd’s ignominious exit from the dinner table, he and Buddy reach a fragile peace back at school, then lose touch.

From The Wall Street Journal

“People have to be able to spend time with their families without being constantly interrupted at the dinner table or their kids’ birthday party, worried about their phones and responding to work.”

From Los Angeles Times

“It was amazing,” he said via video call from the dinner table, his family gathered around him, “but it was exhausting. Hopefully, I can give myself a reward of a party for my friends.”

From New York Times

I would be nervous if you were sitting at my dinner table.

From Salon

Another woman tells the group she realised she had a problem while sitting at the dinner table with her partner's family, talking compulsively about her job in an attempt to hide her insecurities.

From BBC