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Discover LudwigThe phrase "announced dinner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a dinner that has been formally declared or scheduled, often in a social or event context.
Example: "The host announced dinner would be served at 7 PM, inviting everyone to take their seats."
Alternatives: "declared dinner" or "scheduled dinner".
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And so, having prepared her guests for an evening of takeout, she simply tossed some menus on the table alongside her credit card and announced: "Dinner is served.
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An hour ago, the crew had erupted in a clanging kitchen jam, using pots and pans to announce dinner.
Stimulation, however, can also signal an event to follow; then it has meaning only as part of the sequence of which it is the first term: bell announcing dinner, a road sign, or an approaching danger.
Dancing waiters, an opera singer announcing dinner courses melodically, and Joan Baez, improbably, in blond finger waves, a beaded dress and feather headdress, speaking in British and French accents — this is all part of the circus world conjured up by Teatro ZinZanni in San Francisco, one of the Bay Area's few dinner theaters.
Malena warns Mrs. Adams that serving a hot meal on such a hot night won't do; when she announces dinner, it is in a rough, booming voice; she opens the rusty French doors separating the kitchen from the dining room with the force of a graceless military assault.
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Once the bowls were whittled down to a politely unfinished nut or two, Ann-Marie announced that dinner was ready.
A sign by the elevator announced "Xmas Party Dinner on House" at Eddys Restaurant on West 48th Street.
Shortly thereafter, an African-American cook dumped a frying pan full of parched corn on an oil cloth and announced, "Master, dinner ready," Watkins recalled.
My mother announced at dinner, quietly, I want you both to listen to me: the doctor is running more tests on me.
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