Sentence examples for delaying lunch from inspiring English sources

But if the chef hadn't been late to work, delaying lunch that spring day as I sat with my mother in the bar, with her extra sherry, would she ever have told me – and would I ever have found my father?

Here at Headingley, we could be in for a delayed lunch.

I often delay lunch, but I still stop eating at 8. That alone probably has cut many calories of desserts.

The players finally went to a delayed lunch with Agar on 69 not out, Australia on 229 for nine, and England retaining enough composure to offer a lovely impromptu guard of honour at the entrance to the pavilion.

There followed a frenetic period before a delayed lunch interval as Haddin was dropped at deep square leg by Finn, almost run out by Jonny Bairstow and very nearly played Swann onto his own stumps.

That being said, it is hard for me to sympathize with a person whose greatest complaints against God are a late alarm, a delayed lunch, and a car that starts on the third try.

A meeting had been delayed, and lunch next spring to admire the daffodils in their garden had been mooted.

An ex-army man at the opening game delayed his lunch to say that he wouldn't like to see a "them and us" situation develop.

And tech firms such as Google have put webcams in their staff restaurants, so employees can delay going to lunch if they see a long queue.Steve Mann, a professor at the University of Toronto, calls the spread of citizen surveillance "sousveillance"—because most cameras no longer watch from above, but from eye level.

After the start was delayed until after lunch because of a wet outfield, captain Marcus Trescothick made 53.

A long time ago, when our children were young, we asked them if they'd delay having Christmas lunch to first join us in serving a Christmas meal to people in a homeless shelter.