How to Use lunchtime in a Sentence

lunchtime

noun
  • It was nearly lunchtime when we got there.
  • They enjoyed the lunchtimes they spent together.
  • This is the first of a three-part lunchtime training series.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2023
  • At lunchtime, a line of customers formed and the phone kept ringing.
    Imelda García, Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The change to snow is forecast to happen around lunchtime.
    Cameron Fields, cleveland, 23 Dec. 2020
  • As the van made its way through the city at lunchtime, Eddy looked out the window.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • So what’s the kid going to do at lunchtime in the cafeteria?
    The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Use it as a morning cream, a night cream, or, screw it, a lunchtime cream.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Think about spending spend your lunchtime in the park, smelling the flowers and watching the birds.
    Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The wait for a table on a weekend evening is long right now; the catch is to go at lunchtime.
    Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Winds will pick up around lunchtime and will last throughout the second half of the day.
    Michelle Apon, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Sep. 2022
  • By lunchtime, the stock options Omar had bought were down around $7,000 from their peak.
    CNN, 29 Jan. 2021
  • Just plug it in at your desk about an hour before lunchtime.
    Medea Giordano, Wired, 13 July 2022
  • On a lunchtime visit this week, Zeno's ranged from the inspired to the puzzling.
    Bud Kennedy, star-telegram, 4 July 2018
  • The place fills up at lunchtime with a unique mix of artist types, families and men in trucks.
    Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The kids in line with trays at lunchtime, like a scene in a Dickens novel, gave it away.
    Maisha Leek, Marie Claire, 28 Jan. 2019
  • Around lunchtime, the day’s new memes started coming in.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2020
  • There’s even a sushi take-out window on West 3rd Street that’s open at lunchtime from 11 am to 1 pm.
    Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Sit outside at lunchtime and order the three-course menu du jour.
    Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The rain will be gone by lunchtime with a major warm up for the afternoon.
    Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2021
  • The Willamette Valley should begin to see any snow turn over to just rain by lunchtime.
    oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2020
  • During lunchtime, the rich girls often skipped the cafeteria and ate under the shade of the trees in the front yard.
    Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Groh called Delta again a week and a half later – on a Tuesday around lunchtime.
    Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY, 8 June 2021
  • Around lunchtime on Thursday, the restaurant was packed.
    Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The lunchtime queue at Mustafa Gemüse Kebab in Berlin (above) is 45 minutes long.
    1843, 10 July 2019
  • Truck Stop Tuesday, the name given to the weekly lunchtime events, runs through Sept. 24.
    Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 9 July 2019
  • On Friday at lunchtime, a few dozen people lined up for a meal.
    Ginger Christ, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Try to exercise during the warmest part of the day, around lunchtime, when the sun is at its peak.
    Harvard Health Letter, chicagotribune.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The next front will move back into the region from the southwest after about lunchtime.
    oregonlive, 11 Jan. 2023
  • For Election Day, Jones suggested that voters avoid coming during the busy periods of first thing in the morning, lunchtime and after work to beat long lines.
    Kiersten Hacker, Baltimore Sun, 1 Nov. 2024

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