TV dinner

Example Sentences

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If you want to wear rainbow chard, a sardine tin, or a TV dinner in your hair, Lennick has a clip for that, though the company's bestseller is a strawberry.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

But your homemade meals don’t have to resemble a frozen TV dinner, with its segmented tray of meat, an amorphous sauce, a scoop of peas or rice and a mysterious, saccharine lump of... jello?

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2025

The first time I recall eating this dish was in a TV dinner — those flat, foil-covered trays with little compartments to hold your meat, potatoes and vegetables.

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2022

A new installment of “The Food That Built America” pulls back the foil on the classic TV dinner.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2021

My TV dinner tasted like a commercial break.

From "Sunny" by Jason Reynolds