Sentence examples for rather than dinner from inspiring English sources

I'm not sure why we called it supper rather than dinner or tea.

But it's fussy and time-consuming, and you end up with a side dish rather than dinner.

On the first night, we sample Stow's pubs and request some late-night snacks in the bar, rather than dinner in the restaurant.

True – in real life, some of the animals befriended by the Fox family would end up as dinner, rather than dinner guests – but this anthropomorphic romp is great fun.

This menu is very much supper, rather than dinner: an easy meal that you can put on the table when you have friends coming around after a long day's work.

One newspaper reported that orchestra players would still protest by playing in shirtsleeves rather than dinner jackets, which in Milan, the fashion capital, is apparently just shy of not showing up to play at all.

To save money I ate big lunches, rather than dinners, at the fashionable new American cuisine restaurant Mark's Las Olas ($25), its upstart competitor, the Himmarshee Bar and Grill ($25), and the unusual Zan(Z bar, which claims to be the first place in the United States to serve South African cuisine ($30).

She became terrified of going on dates, given that she was reduced to divining rather than reading dinner menus.

There were also the Caudine Forks where the Romans came to grief, but they belonged to geography rather than the dinner table.

That, plus facing the audience before rather than after dinner, "guarantees short speeches," he said at a party on Wednesday for London's Benjamin Franklin House.

Similarly, choosing a lunch date rather than a dinner date says, "I have no intention of trying it on with you, this time".