Sentence examples for empty dinner from inspiring English sources

I couldn't even lift an empty dinner plate.

What could I possibly say to all of these knowledgeable, skilled librarians looking up at me expectantly from their empty dinner plates as I adjusted the microphone?

These supplemental benefits, made available to those in need through our federally funded but locally managed public assistance programs, may be the only thing keeping a working-class family from an empty dinner table.

So at emptying dinner tables his voice rises about the septic tank, the grass that won't grow, the existence of The Biggest Loser, the size of Apple's earbuds, a charcoal grill that takes forever to start, what he's going to do with all these leftovers, a mother who can't make it up the stairs on her own anymore.

After an overstuffed week of nearly unbearable heat that made work difficult and grocery shopping and doing the laundry completely impossible, I realized the fridge was empty and dinner was upon us.

During lunch, he quietly emptied the dinner table and then the refrigerator.

A very posh friend of a friend, bored with waiting for a plate at a restaurant in the Strand, emptied his dinner on to the tablecloth and ate it with a spoon.

Restaurants are significantly emptier at dinner, reservations easy to come by, with enticements to bring your own wine with no charge for corkage.

Unfortunately, a bartender I'd never encountered before was making drinks in the empty pre-dinner hours that Saturday, and was in no mood to discuss the subject.

That night I went to a mostly empty restaurant, ordered dinner and watched the news.

"I state this with a little bit of bitterness when last night I was sitting across from an empty chair" at dinner, said Davide Marongiu (Giuseppina Zambellini), a high school athlete in his native Sardinia before being persuaded by a classmate to try ballet.