Sentence examples for a formidable dinner from inspiring English sources

Ten years to the month after Jamie Oliver began his school food revolution – with the help of a formidable dinner lady called Nora Sands at Kidbrooke school in south London – a small inner-city primary on the other side of the Thames is doing its best to give it a new lease of life.

Every Sunday Sheila and her five closer-to-home sisters help their mother fix dinner, a formidable production, feeding more than three dozen Reulets, all of whom live in Vacherie (pronounced VOSH-uh-ree).

He sustained a formidable social life, going to dinners or a dance two or three times each week, joining friends for weekend hikes or gallery visits, and entertaining at home, where he liked to serve the illicit, Prohibition-era wine he had fermented and aged in the cellar Château Quatre-Vingts Treize.

The staff busied themselves with the dinner and Liz and I sat in silence in front of a formidable sunset.

A Philadelphia correspondent reports that his aunt, a formidable septuagenarian who queens it over a large, well-staffed Main Line residence, recently alarmed him at a family dinner by asking him where she could get a gun cleaned and oiled.

"He's a formidable candidate".

That was a formidable problem.

He is a formidable networker.

He is a formidable campaigner.

"You are a formidable couple.

They made a formidable team.