repast

Example Sentences

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Maybe too decadent for an office worker’s midday repast, but I’ll happily risk an afternoon knockout punch for this sandwich.

From Washington Post

Making a picnic on her bed, one attacks a repast of sausages, baguettes and bananas, wielding scissors like Harpo Marx in “Duck Soup,” then sets alight some decorative streamers with pyromaniacal glee.

From New York Times

She occasionally leaves her “small blue room,” as she calls it, for errands or groceries or, on one particular day, to take a job helping prepare for a repast after a funeral.

From New York Times

After this first meal, I like to maul the rest of the meat off the bones to fashion into all manner of repasts throughout the week.

From New York Times

In frothy prose — meals are “splendid repasts,” apartments “abodes” — Laurence Leamer describes this “coterie of gorgeous, witty and fabulously rich women.”

From New York Times