TV dinner

Example Sentences

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After they have a passive-aggressive fight about the groceries and share a silent, side-by-side TV dinner, Joshua goes upstairs for a shower.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024

To my childhood self, it was the south Indian equivalent of green peas from the classic American TV dinner: the prerequisite something-green on the plate, the unpopular party guest somehow included on every guest list.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2021

I spent middle school as a latchkey kid, riding two public buses to get home and once there, often ended up spending evenings alone and warming up a frozen TV dinner.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2021

Will John finally speak up, or will this be yet another yule he spends alone with a parakeet, a fish and a TV dinner?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2020

Yep, my sister and her husband lived in some old silver trailer that was more like a TV dinner tray than a home.

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie