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

Is it for the promise of a square meal that she takes so drastic a step, when she’s just found a guy she likes?

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 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

We were soaked and filthy, desperately needed a launderette, clean, dry clothes, a square meal, and a Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson