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Example sentences for "lunches"

Lexicographically close words:
lunch; lunched; luncheon; luncheons; luncher; lunching; lunchroom; lunchtime; lune; lunes
  1. He did not mine at Bitumen, but worked his little patch of ground, interpreted when there was need for small consideration, and at last opened a little restaurant where lunches after the German style were served.

  2. The other passengers, absorbed in their lunches or growling at their own discomfort, paid little attention to her.

  3. He enlarged the variety of his lunches and added some other goods.

  4. He found he had a little talent for making the lunches attractive and people would buy them.

  5. Look here--doesn't it seem sort of foolish to prepare two lunches in two different places.

  6. And I'll make up for the time I've overdrawn on lunches by getting back in twenty minutes after this.

  7. You've even lent me the money to buy my lunches with.

  8. Considering the skyscrapers and quick lunches and free lunches that there are to-day, it is hard to realize that there ever was a first one anywhere.

  9. Children are provided free transportation to and from schools; hot lunches are provided; buildings equipped with splendid heating systems and sanitary conditions are generally observed.

  10. Many of the remote rural schools employ normal graduates at good wages, provide hot lunches during the cold weather, have a library, do some work with tools and are as much abreast of the times as the schools of the towns.

  11. I found him in a mood of sweet reasonableness, perhaps the more softened by one of those lunches which our publisher, the hospitable James R.

  12. It is hard to say whether the time was gladder at these dinners, or at the small lunches at which Osgood and Aldrich and I foregathered with him and talked the afternoon away till well toward the winter twilight.

  13. Every schoolhouse of more than five rooms should have a kitchen and a lunch room as part of its equipment, and classes should take turns in cooking and serving lunches for the rest of the children.

  14. He breakfasts with the Septuagint, lunches off the Gospels, and sups with Revelations.

  15. In his saloon there were long tables where the Bohemian and German farmers could eat the lunches they brought from home while they drank their beer.

  16. As it can be seasoned and served in a variety of ways, it makes a delightful addition to lunches or other light meals in which a protein dish, such as meat, is undesirable.

  17. A highly seasoned cold dish that is delicious for picnics or cold lunches can be made by removing the yolks from hard-cooked eggs, seasoning them, and then stuffing them into the whites, as is explained in the recipe here given.

  18. Why Light Lunches ΒΆ When your stomach is busy digesting a big meal your brain takes a vacation.

  19. The children who do not get lunches thrive better than those who always have candy, fruit or bread and jam at their command.

  20. If the parents believe in moderation, the neighbors kindly give lunches to the children.

  21. They have learned to cook by making soup for hot lunches for the school and the neighbors, and by cooking a whole meal for their own class.

  22. All this has since been turned into a serving table where student waiters serve the food they have cooked--real lunches to their fellow students, who pay a student cashier.

  23. They used to git lunches off of him," replied the other, "but the old man wasn't none too dependable.

  24. In connection with many of the downtown soda fountains there are cooking arrangements, and business lunches are served.

  25. He gets them lunches fer two bits and sells 'em for thirty-five cents.

  26. You say they take on the lunches at Covin now?

  27. I get lunches at the stop-over places, I do.

  28. He had wheedled the cook on board the Constance Colfax to put up the two lunches for him; but he washed his own down with water from the tank at the end of the car.

  29. Toby did not seem to mind how many times he went around the pavilion where the picnic lunches were to be eaten.

  30. In the middle of the woods was a little lake, and near the shore of it was a large open-sided building where there were tables and benches, and where the people ate the lunches they brought in boxes and baskets.

  31. After the lighthouse had been visited and examined, the boys led the way to the fishing-ground, where the tide had come up over their fish and lunches and rods.

  32. Jonas grumbled a good deal at having so many lunches to put up.

  33. In a very short time the invading army had met its Waterloo, and the lunches were safe from any further attack.

  34. The operators there had been much annoyed by an army of cockroaches that used to march across the table where they put their lunches and make a raid on the sandwiches and pies.

  35. There on Saturdays, when there was no school, almost everybody went picking and took their lunches with them.

  36. We drank from the same cup, swung in the same swing, sharing our lunches together, and no matter where we have roamed through the wide world can we forget that little old log school house.

  37. After the tramp has had one or two of these impromptu lunches he persuades himself that he has had enough, and goes off for a rest.

  38. Besides the three meals which every hobo has regularly, there are also two or three lunches a day, which are included in the hot diet, although they practically belong to the cold one.

  39. Hungry tourists were wholly without prejudice, and prized her lunches for their own sake.

  40. She was quite able to see that getting up frequent lunches at three dollars, and dinners at five dollars, made a better income than ten dollars a week even with several days unoccupied.

  41. They descended upon the caffeteria in chattering swarms, some days, robbing the regular patrons of their food, and sent sudden orders for picnic lunches that broke in upon the routine hours of the place unmercifully.

  42. Her lunches she would purchase wherever she might happen to be at the noon hour--or go without.

  43. He prepares lunches for bankers and political men, mostly; but finds it inconvenient, as these lunches are often given in their offices, and he prepares the dishes at home, and must have them warm when served up.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lunches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.