Sentence examples for set for supper from inspiring English sources

Then would come the 7 o'clock firehouse whistle, and the slapping of wet feet as children sprinted home — from the breakwater, the point, the shipyard — up Sal Tinker's hill or down Shinbone Alley to a table set for supper.

"We're both so thin," he said when he embraced her and they were alone, by the table set for supper.

The herbal tea sharpens your mind, elevates your mood, alleviates your hunger and gets you set for supper.

Chris Grayling says he will fix your car in the morning, Chris Grayling was just setting down for supper, won't you eat?; and the question I suppose I am asking here is: i. do you go into the house and eat the cornbread and sleep in the stiff single bed in his mother's old room and be absolutely fucking murdered to death by this dude; or ii.

Setting up for supper with the television, I swung an Alvar Aalto nesting table past it (only the best for the clumsy), hit it on the chin, and over it went in an elegant back dive, like an acrobatic swan.

The plans already call for a parade along Main Street, courtesy of the Bridgehampton Fire Department, tentatively set for June 17, and a community potluck supper "intended to involve everybody in the community, whether their family came 350 years ago or six months ago," Mr. Eilertsen said.

Warming my hands by the fire, I gazed towards the waves I'd earlier been sharing with my supper, watching the sky turn gold as the sun finally set for the day.

She unfreezes Gretel with another spell and orders her to go into the house to set the table for supper.

There is an enigmatic pageant of scenes: setting the table for supper, listening to the radio, opening the hangar door for the air-sea rescue helicopter (a mesmerically slow and sinuous sequence), migrants having a football match in near darkness and arguing about which nationalities can play, migrants' dead bodies taken ashore by coastguards in white hazmat suits.

In the house where Morgan stayed, the table was set with supper which he and his men ate before resting for the night.

LUDMILA, a 55-year-old widow, set the supper table.