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The phrase "arriving for dinner" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the action of someone coming to a place specifically for the purpose of having dinner.
Example: "We were all excited about arriving for dinner at the new restaurant downtown."
Alternatives: "coming for dinner" or "showing up for dinner".
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By 8 p.m., when Mr. Phippen was finishing his lemon cream sherbet, the summer people started arriving for dinner, the clatter of their conversations suddenly filling the room.
Tony Blair, the British prime minister, was late arriving for dinner, and the president was offered a chance to rehearse again but said he was ready.
8. Arriving for dinner at 8 p.m.; Aug. 17: A reception was held at the Breakers Stable museum, with its Vanderbilt family memorabilia, and, for the weekend, horses.
Mullen would often drop by Kayani's home at the military enclave in Rawalpindi, arriving for dinner and staying into the early morning, discussing the pressures of command while the sullen-visaged general chain-smoked Dunhills.
We first see them arriving for dinner and cigars wearing masonic bibs, and some of them even arrive with – gasp – women, though these are quickly led off to pass their evening somewhere out of sight.
Arriving for dinner at Mr. Boren's residence, Mr. Bloomberg brought gifts: three cheesecakes — one plain, one chocolate swirl, one raspberry swirl — from Junior's, the famed Brooklyn outpost of pickles, pastrami and pastries.
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When Hundt arrived for dinner, Murdoch escorted him outside.
On Tuesday nights, regulars arrive for "dinner and a movie".
Eventually, Dana arrived for dinner, and conversation turned to Fella's college plans.
They had perhaps arrived for dinner with their utensils in hand.
Elvira and Leporello encounter the statue of the Commendatore as it arrives for dinner.
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