Sentence examples for abandoning dinner from inspiring English sources

(Plus, ouch!) I put the gas burner on low, abandoning dinner, and went to change my shirt in the bedroom.

By the end of the song, more than a dozen guests abandon dinner and leave the restaurant.

I could see the abandoned dinner tables and the stone sculleries, the muddy boots on the doormat, the piles of newly opened letters on the sideboard, the silent men sitting in worn armchairs in the kitchen, watching television.

Everything has been up for sale, from dusty bureaus, abandoned dinner services and rusty watering cans -- the contents of its attic -- right down to a multimillion-dollar painting by Guercino.

Some composed careful tableaux of empty clothing and abandoned dinners.

Former President George W. Bush provided fewer opportunities for the elite to demonstrate their eliteness by virtually abandoning state dinners, but there were invitations to his Texas ranch to clear brush, a dubious distinction, perhaps, during 100-degree Crawford summers.

Before you know it, you are sneaking out of work early, or abandoning a family dinner, and heading for the first tee.

They belonged to the members of the Cabinet and caused many to abandon their dinners and hunch overtheir Blackberrys, urgently discussing what to do next.

They know about the callousness of Napps, leader of the three, who with Millet-Bass, an uncomplicated ox of a man, abandoned poor Dinners when supplies were running low and bad weather made rescue look impossible.

There was some spoiled fruit and a mold-covered room-service dinner abandoned in her room.

When I arrived at the clearing, having abandoned my solitary dinner, I found the corpse lying just as the young hunters had come upon it, supine, arms thrown up and to either side of the flayed face in a startled attitude that fuelled the hopes of poor Dr. Sauer that the victim's death by gunshot had preceded his mutilation.