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Example sentences for "dinner time"

  • When my husband came home at dinner time, I tried to meet him with a smile; but I felt that the light upon my countenance was feeble, and of brief duration.

  • She did not come home until dinner time, laden with medicine bottles, and shut herself up at once in her room, where she saturated herself with disinfectants.

  • One morning, however, she saw another man come in at dinner time, and she said: "Has Jacques left?

  • At dinner time Mr. Marion did not make his appearance, and his wife remained in her chamber.

  • The promise for a pleasant hour at home was but little more flattering to my husband, when he returned in the evening, than it had been at dinner time.

  • At dinner time I sometimes find them all fast asleep or playing about.

  • At dinner time, Andrew declined meeting his father at the table.

  • At dinner time he came to the table with his feelings a good deal subdued.

  • At dinner time he went home, and sat at the table, silent and gloomy; but he scarcely tasted food.

  • Mr. Lissin, who is a country squire of Northwick, will soon teach her another lesson, than that of ordering her carriage just at dinner time!

  • Miss Margland said, he was so often doing something or other that was ill-bred, that she was not at all surprised he should stay out at dinner time.

  • He had lingered perforce with his brothers and sister outside the cabin until dinner time, and when he came in he was meek as Moses.

  • The Honourable Hilary Vane, whose face they study at dinner time, is not worried.

  • At dinner time Mr. Uhler came home from the store, where he was now employed at a small salary, and still more to his surprise, found a well cooked and well served meal awaiting him.

  • To have inquired of the servant whether Mr. Uhler had made any remark, when he found that she was absent at dinner time, she would have regarded as a betrayal to that personage of a sense of accountability on her part.

  • My Lord Bassanio, since you haue found Anthonio We two will leaue you, but at dinner time I pray you haue in minde where we must meete Bass.

  • At dinner time Mrs. Hobart saw at a glance how it was.

  • And as Mr. Bacon spoke he poured out a larger glass of brandy than usual--he always had brandy on the table at dinner time--and drank it off.

  • Most of de grown slave women knocked off from field work at dinner time on Saturdays and done de washin' for de rest of de slaves.

  • If you don't believe it, try me dis day, at dinner time!

  • You used to drink whiskys and sodas at all hours of the day, and quite as much wine as was good for you at dinner time.

  • At dinner time, Von Ragastein was one more himself, immaculate in white duck, with clean linen, shaved, and with little left of his fatigue.

  • The old doctor came down and joined him at dinner time.

  • Man's all right; I seen him at dinner time.

  • Dinner time he was so drunk he couldn't find his mouth.

  • Man told me, at dinner time, but I'm no good on earth at remembering names till after I've seen the person it belongs to.

  • Julia heard them when she went to and from with the dishes at dinner time.

  • The maidservant in the kitchen was minding the pots; it still wanted some while to dinner time; she did not expect the English miss would come yet, probably not till it was necessary to dish up.

  • If the conversation had touched on the famous explosive at dinner time, Julia would have known it; she was always on the watch for some such occurrence.

  • She had gone up-stairs now, doubtless to pack her things; that would occupy her till almost dinner time.

  • One day at dinner time, while they were still at dessert, la brigadiera was conversing socially with her nephew.

  • It is dinner time already, and mamma will be expecting me.

  • She sets out early in the morning, and no one knows anything about her till dinner time; and before dinner is fairly over, she is off again, and does not get back till night!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    best friend; dinner coffee; dinner given; dinner parties; dinner party; dinner speech; dinner speeches; dinner time; domestic science; drizzling rain; each verse; firmly fixed; hold fast; inflicted upon; integral part; leaning over; long hairs; more brilliant; murderous fire; often seen; relieve them; several small; talked about; that direction; this gentleman; when compared