dinner

Example Sentences

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Sometimes it’s a stranger asking whether you’re still on for dinner tomorrow night.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Her viral “SNL” sketch “Haircut” — in which Padilla goes to dinner with friends, disturbing them with her atrocious haircut — was created at Groundlings, where it killed.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

The bank’s internal review found Bodner had obtained preapproval to take a “client” and the client’s boyfriend to dinner at a local deli, but instead held a party at his home for family and friends.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

The conversation was pleasant enough, but by the end of the evening, he told us we were “his favorite couple” he had ever taken to dinner.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

The way that certain other parents made their kids go to church, Jonah’s parents made him and Katherine sit down at the dinner table with them just about every night.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix