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Example sentences for "hearty meal"

  • After a hearty meal and a pint of claret, I felt rather inclined to sit still, and expatiate for an hour or so, but Campana roused me, and asked whether or not I felt inclined to go and look at the town.

  • After a hearty meal, instead of giving you time to ruminate, and to allow the gastric juices to operate, away they lug you to be plumped over head and ears into a pool of ice cold water.

  • Accordingly the bundle was opened, and they sat down and partook of a hearty meal.

  • She produced a loaf and some bacon from a little cupboard hidden by her bed, and Vincent, who, now he thought of it, was feeling hungry, made a hearty meal.

  • The basket of provisions was opened, and a hearty meal enjoyed, Tony being now permitted for the first time to sit up in the boat.

  • We have just had a hearty meal, and have got enough food for three or four days in that bundle.

  • For Cyril had raised himself to his feet, and his father led him at once to where his companions lay close by, where their rescuers had formed their temporary camp, and were now making a hearty meal.

  • A few minutes later they were enjoying a hearty meal, and the mules were revelling in their freedom from their loads, while the two Indians sat munching their sun-dried strips of meat, and talking together in a low voice.

  • Soon after those on the look-out, while the rest made a hearty meal to prepare them for the toil of the day, announced Indians, and arms were seized, while men stood ready to run to their horses and to protect their cattle.

  • The missing Indians seemed to be attracted by the odour, for just as it was done they all came straight up to camp ready to make a hearty meal, in which their white companions were in no wise behind hand.

  • Leaving the road, they found a sheltered spot among the sand hills, ate a hearty meal, and then lay down to sleep.

  • I thought he needed it, for his clothes were old and tattered, and he looked as if he hadn't had a hearty meal for a week.

  • He made a hearty meal, but only shook his head when she addressed him, and laughed childishly and muttered his thanks in Spanish when she bestowed a dollar upon him as he left.

  • We had a hearty meal at Seville, and I shall do very well until morning.

  • A hearty meal of fried eggs and another drink of hot ale completed the restoration of the boys.

  • Our Esquimaux made good use of this respite to refresh themselves after the fatigues of the night with a hearty meal and a sound nap.

  • But having last night made a hearty meal of the provisions they had acquired, they seemed to take things easy, and thought it would all be right in the end.

  • That his "uncle" had no present intention of starving him was plain, for he was allowed a hearty meal of whatever took his fancy.

  • Mid-day came and we made a hearty meal, the canoe, urged by the soft brisk breeze, still gliding onwards till towards evening, when we were sufficiently near the land we approached to make out that it was very bleak and bare and sterile.

  • It was soon evident why Ebo had wanted so many fish, for after cleaning and setting enough for our breakfasts to roast, he prepared the rest and put them to cook while we made a hearty meal.

  • Breakfast is a hard thing to manage in America, particularly in a country-house, as people have different ideas about eating a hearty meal at nine o'clock or earlier.

  • A hunt breakfast in America is, of course, a hearty meal, to which the men and women are asked who have an idea of riding to hounds.

  • Hence the necessity of a hearty meal at five o'clock tea.

  • I made a hearty meal, although Tom felt too qualmish to eat much, and then we both lay down with the assurance that our troubles would probably soon be over.

  • Gunson laughed as he saw these preparations, but he said no more till we had partaken of a hearty meal.

  • We imitated their example, and made a hearty meal, washing it down with a tin of water from a little fountain which gushed from a moss-covered rock.

  • With the addition of bread and butter it makes a hearty meal, and costs about twenty-two cents.

  • Use it with bread; it will cost about fifteen cents for enough for a hearty meal.

  • Five cents' worth makes a hearty meal, with a little butter or molasses.

  • The woman then retires, and the guests partake of a hearty meal, at the conclusion of which the woman reappears with five vessels full of water, with which they wash their hands.

  • At about noon a hearty meal is partaken of, and the ceremony is at an end.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hearty meal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bursting shells; flatter myself; for not; great many; harm shall; hearty cheer; hearty laugh; hearty meal; hearty shake; hearty welcome; intellectual development; life when; live according; more honorable; national prosperity; nothing very; obtained mercy; private secretary; reading desk; rose again from the; same name; small doses; then more; thirty yards; whose memory; will beat