Sentence examples for summoned to dinner from inspiring English sources
DeHaan is summoned to dinner by his employers.
He is summoned to dinner with Thomas More, smooth, cosmopolitan, serpentine – anything but saintly.
After guests were summoned to dinner by the banging of a gong and the slow handclap that traditionally greets the top table at these formal dinners, Bailey took his seat beside John McFarlane, the chairman of Barclays.
Summoned to dinner in the luxurious and graceful Goring hotel in the shadow of Buckingham Palace, the HSBC chief executive's 37-year globe-trotting career was about to come to a close.
That is, it helps to be "the flavor of the month," the band everyone's talking about, the band that gets summoned to dinner (as happened on Friday night) by Seymour Stein, the founder of Sire Records It also helps to be the kind of band that's determined to turn a week of music-biz overload into yet another weird adventure.
Summoned to dinner by her clingy boyfriend Abe, who seems a little too concerned by Peggy's joshingly familiar relationship with male co-workers, our workaholic young heroine at first worries that he's going to break up with her, only to be convinced by Joan that he probably wants to propose.
Together with the artistic directors of the 2012 Avignon festival and other assorted French directors, Ostermeier and I – the only two foreign directors at the festival – have been summoned to a dinner while he makes his first official visit to the city.
On her first day at Taliesin West, the Wright compound, she was summoned to a formal dinner, where she found herself at a long, polished bright-red table.
It was understood that one would take a cocktail in the Red Room before the servants came with the summons to dinner.
Ms. Lynch discussed the menu with us in a sitting room dominated by a portrait of Oscar Wilde and brought us our wine while we awaited our summons to dinner.
Only seven days after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as president, James B. Comey has told associates, the F.B.I. director was summoned to the White House for a one-on-one dinner with the new commander in chief.
