How to Use dinner in a Sentence

dinner

noun
  • We're planning to ask them to dinner soon.
  • We had many pleasant dinners together.
  • Two hundred people attended his retirement dinner.
  • At the end of the day, bring your catch back to shore for dinner.
    Outside Online, 29 Dec. 2022
  • One of the most classic date ideas is to do dinner or a drink and a show.
    Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Girl dinner is fries for the table and a lil bowl of noodles.
    Savannah Smith, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Want to sip wine in Chile or have dinner in the desert in the United Arab Emirates for free?
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The app will tell you the restaurant location on the morning of the dinner.
    Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Carter and Diane chatted for most of the drive after the group stopped for dinner.
    Christina Maxouris, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Follow up with dinner at their restaurant of the same name.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Great for dinner, and even greater for lounging around at home.
    Olivia Hosken, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2023
  • This would work well for church, the office, and Easter dinner.
    Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The crew heads out to dinner, and Diana hopes there are hot people there.
    Emma Soren, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The turkey dinner is $57 per person and the prime rib dinner is $65.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The first big event of the trip was a special dinner at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta.
    Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • Aim to do about 10 of them three times a day—maybe during breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
    Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2022
  • What's your favorite meal of the day: breakfast, lunch, or dinner?
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Tour is a series of special dinners and events through year's end.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 20 Sep. 2024
  • And there's always the parade and football while dinner is in progress.
    Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Nov. 2024
  • That didn’t work, but Trump did agree to host a fundraiser dinner for Giuliani.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Guests who stay in the Gudliya suite will be treated to breakfast and dinner at Baradari, the restaurant at City Palace.
    Town & Country, 13 Feb. 2023
  • But that high came to an abrupt end with a mediocre steak dinner at a Best Western sports bar.
    Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024
  • In the evenings, parents gathered to watch kids play in the makeshift roads before dinner and bedtime.
    Courtney Crowder, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
  • What did people eat for dinner tens of thousands of years ago?
    Diana Kwon, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
  • On the night of the state dinner, Lilly had found out A.B. was planning to expose her and had tried to rip the journal out of his hand.
    Megan McCluskey, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Queen Maxima wore the same ensemble to a 2019 dinner in The Hague.
    Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 1 June 2023
  • From gym sessions to cooking dinner, our clothes go through a lot each day.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2023
  • To round off the dinner, the box also included a large order of fries and a warm apple pie to share.
    Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
  • Later that evening, Mr. and Mrs. Kosuge took me to dinner at the sushi restaurant in my hotel.
    Megan Zhang, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
  • And most mentoring came when Warren and Janzen were in the car going to lunch or over at the Janzen house for dinner.
    Laurinda Joenks, Arkansas Online, 17 Dec. 2022

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