Sentence examples for cancelled lunch from inspiring English sources

Yet Charlie Ravioli was becoming so constant and oddly discouraging a companion — "He cancelled lunch.

He cancelled lunch with a partner, put a notebook and a few papers in his briefcase, and walked to the elevator.

In "Bumping Into Mr. Ravioli," Adam Gopnik profiles his daughter's imaginary friend, a very busy man named Charlie Ravioli, who has his own social circle ("He cancelled lunch.

(For one thing, he is also seven and a half, though we were fairly sure that this age was merely Olivia's marker for As Old as Man Can Be).... Charlie Ravioli was becoming so constant and oddly discouraging a companion-"He cancelled lunch.

"How am I going to fill my day now that Barack has cancelled lunch?

It wasn't going to ring today, he knew, and yet, an autocrat can wish can't he? Poor little Ivan had drawn the short toothpick in the kitchen and had to tell the President of the Russian Federation that Barack cancelled lunch with him.

Or a kind of power display, like canceling lunch?

She laments that he "had to run"; he regularly cancels lunch with her at the last minute.

Beame rushed back, canceling lunch with former Prime Minister Golda Meir and an audience at Vatican City with Pope Paul VI.

And the next time I have to cancel lunch with my mother I'm going to do it early.

Not once in his diary does Pepys cancel lunch or struggle to fit someone in for coffee at four-thirty.