Sentence examples for a small meal from inspiring English sources

Instead, stop what you're doing for a few minutes and eat your snack like you would a small meal.

It's her habit to rise around 2 p.m., fix a small meal, place some phone calls and then wait for the evening's plans to take shape.

I would have a small meal of something liquid, for I still would not and could not satisfy my appetite — any of my appetites.

The croquette, pureed eggplant blended with Parmesan and bread crumbs and fried until crisp, would make a small meal in itself.

Doctors say eight teaspoons a day won't do most people much harm, but 22 teaspoons per day — 396 calories, a small meal in itself, and our median consumption level, according to Lustig — will.

Many Russians are perfecting the art of the hustle, such as a waiter who charges $15.00 for a small meal, when, unbeknownst to the writer, a buffet in the next room costs the equivalent of sixty cents.

It is possible to imagine him having a small meal of minor critics for breakfast, as if they were kippers, and then polishing off a pile of verse novelists with his 11 a.m.

At various points during our busiest hours, someone will pull up a stool to the counter for a small meal: a side dish here, a heap of pasta there, a second helping of protein or salad before bed.

He proposes a stroll, which they take silently; she makes him a small meal of rice and dhal that he revels in, not least because she made it for him.

A meaty Asian duck confit, dark and delicious with soy sauce, was a small meal in itself, and lighter but just as pleasing was a salad of roasted beets, arugula, spiced fat walnuts and grapefruit — a skillful balance of sweet, bitter, sour and salt.

The rival, smaller Christmas bird, the goose, was also a favourite at the time, appearing in A Christmas Carol when the ghost of Christmas present takes Scrooge to see the impoverished Cratchits eking out a small meal so that with "apple-sauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family".