Sentence examples for dinner meant from inspiring English sources

"À la carte" meant soup or salad; "dinner" meant soup and salad.

AS often as not, traveling to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for dinner meant one of two things.

There was a time when ordering a glass of wine with dinner meant choosing between the house red and the house white.

A whole chicken dinner, meant for two, makes for a down-home meal: roasted potatoes with a hint of Dijon, bacony collard greens, and superb chicken so lusciously moist as to make a jus served on the side redundant.

In the hotel, going down to dinner meant wading through a sea of journalists who had been starved of news for days, while ordering room service was lonely and offered no break from the luxurious claustrophobia of the hotel.

"Dinner means death!" he wails.

Going out for dinner means taking along heavy boots, work gloves and a shovel, just in case.

When Steve Carl steps out of his three-bedroom beach house in Ambergris Caye in northern Belize, snorkeling at one of the largest barrier reefs in the world is just a short swim away and going to dinner means leaving footwear behind.

Now 85 and a widow (and writer), Jones has re-examined what making dinner means when you're "only" cooking for yourself, and has concluded that it's a delight: "I open up the wine and light the candles, turn on some music, and give thanks".

Some nights, "family dinner" means just us two.

CE: What does the ritual of dinner mean, why is it so important?