Sentence examples for suppertime from inspiring English sources

In the 1980s and 1990s the number of ballot initiatives soared, as tycoons from Silicon Valley and Hollywood, or special interests such as public-sector unions, threw millions of dollars into campaigns, paying college students a dollar or more for each signature they collected, blanketing the airwaves with demagogic attack ads and pestering residents with robo-calls at suppertime.

My final surprise of the day came at suppertime.

There are days when, except for an exchange of smiles and hellos with Mohammed at the newsstand and my suppertime phone call with a man I am seeing who lives in London, Ben is the only man I talk to.

Coffee at suppertime was what he'd always liked.

Just before suppertime she herded them back into the car and made a final check-she counted nine little heads instead of eight.

Come suppertime, the ginks would be spooning beans off a tin plate while Sinkler sat in a dining car eating steak with silverware.

And what about keeping it secret from Bernice, who went home at suppertime and would surely get a whiff of the preparations?

Just past suppertime on a starry night in November, several unfamiliar cars pulled up outside 251 Waterford Crystal Drive, in Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, where news vans had been parked for weeks to cover a tragedy that came to be known, in the bluff shorthand of the morning shows, as the MySpace Suicide Hoax.

It was suppertime and the town was a constellation of yellow points.

Deb Kosarick, the nurse renting the cottage, arrived home around suppertime, and she joined Judy in the kitchen.

To arrive at your chalet at around ­suppertime in the dark, and find that soft, fat flakes are falling fast through a black, windless sky, puts you in the mood like nothing else – ­except, perhaps, a quick snowball fight.