TV dinner
Example Sentences
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If you want to wear rainbow chard, a sardine tin, or a TV dinner in your hair, Lennick has a clip for that, though the company's bestseller is a strawberry.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
But your homemade meals don’t have to resemble a frozen TV dinner, with its segmented tray of meat, an amorphous sauce, a scoop of peas or rice and a mysterious, saccharine lump of... jello?
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2025
To latchkey children in the ’80s, the occasional sleazy teacher was as familiar as divorce or a TV dinner.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
The first time I recall eating this dish was in a TV dinner — those flat, foil-covered trays with little compartments to hold your meat, potatoes and vegetables.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2022
I found one such TV dinner that included thirty-one ingredients, from guar and xanthan gum to “natural grill flavor.”
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
