substantial meal

Example Sentences

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While Kardashian’s role was as delicious and ephemeral as a piece of cotton candy, Lesley Manville’s part in Murphy’s series “Grotesquerie” was the real substantial meal.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024

This included any pub stops only being allowed at premises which serve a "substantial meal" with alcohol bought.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2023

A scotch egg is definitely a substantial meal, Michael Gove has said, as he performed a screeching U-turn on his earlier controversial position that it constituted merely a starter.

From The Guardian • Dec. 1, 2020

This is a substantial meal — shiitake mushroom, egg, lettuce, zucchini, carrot, rape blossom shoots, bean sprouts and rice — with copious amounts of beef piled on top and a side of gochujang.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2019

Lunch of soup, bread and jam, and cocoa was at 1:00 P.M., tea was at 4:00 P.M., and dinner, the most substantial meal of the day, was at 6:00 P.M.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong