MEAL in a Sentence

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For MEAL, below is one of 270 sentences:
These hungry men could devour the whole shoat at one meal and, if they knew of the live hogs, they could commandeer them for the army.

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 Meanings and Examples of MEAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
meal
 n.  the food served and eaten at one time
 n.  any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
Classic Sentence: (182 in 13 pages)
1  Mattie, when the meal was over, went about her usual task of clearing the table and washing up the dishes.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Throughout the dismal meal, Gerald's booming voice battered against her ears until she thought she could endure it no longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  "Prissy, find my salts," fluttered Pittypat, pushing back her chair from her half-eaten meal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  He devoted himself to Fanny with such sympathetic deference she even smiled at him, and the meal went well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  There would be a good meal at Tara tonight, in spite of the lack of side meat to boil with the vegetables.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  They must have dried peas and sorghum and meal and rice and--and-- oh, so many things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  That was about enough to buy one square meal for them all, she thought ironically, now that Confederate money was worth almost less than nothing at all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  Scarlett had been restraining her appetite for hours, waiting for the return of the others and the thought of the Yankee eating their meager meal made her shake with anger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  "Send over Pork with a wagon and you shall have half of what we've got, rice, meal, ham, some chickens," said Old Miss, giving Scarlett a sudden keen look.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  On a noonday in mid-November, they all sat grouped about the dinner table, eating the last of the dessert concocted by Mammy from corn meal and dried huckleberries, sweetened with sorghum.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  These hungry men could devour the whole shoat at one meal and, if they knew of the live hogs, they could commandeer them for the army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  The soldiers mixed their ration of corn meal with water, and salt too when they could get it, wrapped the thick paste about their ramrods and roasted the mess over camp fires.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  Pork had been almost worthless since the trip, so proud was he of returning safely with his wagon-load of dress goods, seed, fowls, hams, side meat and meal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
14  Carreen had said little during the meal but when it was over she slipped over to Mrs. Tarleton's side and whispered something.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
15  The Carpetbaggers were looting the town, many honest folk were driven from their homes and did not know where to look for their next meal, and a negro sat in the lieutenant governor's chair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
Example Sentence: (88 in 6 pages)
16  She spewed up the entire meal.
17  You'll feel better with a good meal inside you.
18  Finish the meal with a piece of fresh fruit.
19  They haven't had a square meal for four or five days.
20  The meal itself was not so good — everything was boringly brown including the vegetables.
21  Trade having been done, they settled to take the meal, to eat, to indicate their good intentions.
22  After the kill the men and old women collect in an open space and eat a meal of whale meat.
23  We were treated to a slap-up meal with every kind of seafood imaginable.
24  Lunch is his main meal of the day.
25  Don't dally over your meal, we don't want to miss our train.
26  I arrive at nine o'clock, teach until twelve thirty and then have a meal; that is my morning routine.
27  I would rather pay for a meal than watch nine friends pick over and split a bill.
28  We managed to beg a meal from the cafe owner.
29  I commended the chef on the excellent meal.
30  Cookies and coffee are the perfect ending to a meal.