Sentence examples for filling a plate from inspiring English sources

For the Reids, serving dinner family style means managing portions by filling a plate from pots on the stove, not from autopilot help-yourself bowls on the table.

At a fund-raising cocktail party for the S.L.D.N. in a 190-year-old historic Nashville farmhouse, Calpernia Addams is filling a plate with roasted pork loin and steamed shrimp dumplings.

He's, what, 23?" He got up and filled a plate from the buffet.

Vegetarian restaurants include Mangolds, where diners fill a plate from a daily changing spread and pay by weight.

She filled a plate for us, which we gobbled down, and learned we'd done well to act fast.

I filled a plate with salad and plopped down in front of the air-conditioner to eat.

She disappears across the lane to fill a plate with packaged buns and water from one of the many small house-front stalls selling snacks, drinks and toiletries; as guests we have to be offered some form of refreshment.

Without muddying flavors, he manages to fill a plate with about a dozen distinct ingredients at one time, and in his best dishes, each flavor is precise and legible: lemon over here, chorizo there; c?s at 12 o'clock and black bean sprouts at 6.

They get the occasional stranger here, and I was peremptorily directed to fill a plate with sausage and potato casserole and a fruity green salad (and eye the Nilla-wafer-studded banana pudding I'd come back to shortly), before being gently drawn in to conversations by the mild-mannered crowd.

Brunkala filled a plate with strawberries.

His wife implores him to fill a plate with some actual dinner, a command he pretends to not understand.