square meal
Example Sentences
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Three or four children cram behind each desk at a local school, which aims to feed each pupil a bowl of rice and beans so they can have at least one square meal per day.
From Reuters ● Dec. 13, 2021
Maybe for lunch today I’ll make a square meal of my own.
From The Verge ● Aug. 26, 2021
Harriet herself describes the perfect gingerbread as “a square meal and a good night’s sleep and a long, blood‐spattered howl at the moon rolled into one.”
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2019
Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 12, 2011; 3:10 PM Gordon Smith believes few things are more American than a square meal with peas, carrots and corn.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2011
“He moved into the hospital after they cleaned it up. Used to come over from time to time for a square meal and a chat, though he hasn’t been lately.”
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
