Their parents decided to pass up the local Y.M.C.A. league, along with the rush-hour drives and the dinner delays it would entail, in favor of old-fashioned pickup games.
Dinner was delayed, and inmates were told there might not be any dinner; vicious threats were exchanged between inmates and guards.
In a strong sign of the power struggle behind the scenes, the summit dinner was delayed by 90 minutes shortly before it was due to start, while Italy's prime minister, Matteo Renzi, cancelled a scheduled pre-summit meeting with EU social democratic heads of government and arrived late.
At the awards dinner, officials delayed presentation of the grand trophy, saying they would confer again and determine a winner later.
If her rage kicked in before we sat down, dinner would be delayed.
The lady rang for the maid to tell her that dinner would be delayed.
"Finally, someone decided to cut across the middle," Stevens said, sounding like a hungry shark whose dinner had been delayed.
He has had holidays ruined by the Cross Bronx — he still gets angry describing the Thanksgiving dinner that was delayed for nearly two hours because relatives were stuck in Cross Bronx traffic.
Denny chats with them and their friend Edith before dinner, which is inexplicably delayed.
It led to his sixth and final bogey and pretty much delayed his dinner plans.
Mr. Little delays dinner time until the film is almost half over, but once it begins, the munching is graphic, startling and occasionally even inventive.
