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
On this day in 1895, the Nogales Oasis newspaper noted that in Phoenix, “there are now several restaurants offering a square meal for the sum of 15 cents.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2018
It was even harder to keep it on the table long enough for her children to eat a square meal.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
