LUNCH in a Sentence

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For LUNCH, below is one of 143 sentences:
Yet the meeting took place: a lunch in a private room at the club, the two men alone, looking one another up and down.

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 Meanings and Examples of LUNCH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lunch
 v.  take the midday meal
 n.  a midday meal
Classic Sentence: (99 in 7 pages)
1  In the exuberance of my joy, I asked him to lunch with me at the Holborn, and we started off together in a hansom.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  And now for lunch, and then for Norman Neruda.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3  In time for lunch please, she said aloud.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
4  But they had brought a lunch basket.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
5  Then they went in to lunch, and Mrs. Manresa bubbled up, enjoying her own capacity to surmount, without turning a hair, this minor social crisis--this laying of two more places.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
6  She supervised the meal officially, but implied that in her own stately person she considered lunch a weakness.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
7  Filled fuller than ever, with this great idea, Mr. Bounderby came in to lunch, and sat himself down in the dining-room of former days, where his portrait was.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
8  Breakfast was served in the bedrooms; Clifford never appeared before lunch, and the dining-room was a little dreary.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
9  'I don't think I can stand that young man,' said Clifford at lunch.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
10  Connie went to the wood directly after lunch.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
11  At lunch she could not contain her feeling.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
12  I shall probably stay the night at Retford with the Colemans, so I should be with you for lunch, Thursday.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
13  Yet the meeting took place: a lunch in a private room at the club, the two men alone, looking one another up and down.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
14  The following day he had lunch with Connie and Hilda, at some discreet place.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
15  She decided to see him only to say good-bye, before lunch.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
Example Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
16  He insisted on describing his operation in graphic detail while we were eating lunch.
17  I had a huge lunch, so I'll only need a snack for dinner.
18  A dozen senators met over lunch with the Chinese ambassador.
19  I go to that restaurant for lunch if I'm feeling extravagant.
20  There's no such thing as a free lunch.
21  I'm sorry, Joanna isn't here at the moment, she's out to/gone to lunch.
22  He dashed off to lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe.
23  The students have lunch at school.
24  The scientist lighted on a solution when he was having lunch.
25  I made a quick foray into town before lunch to get my sister a present.
26  I'll pay for lunch - I can stick it on my expenses.
27  Richard did not deviate from his daily routine: every day he set off for work at eight o'clock, had his sack lunch at 12:15, and headed home at the stroke of five.
28  Billy resisted Ted's attempts to browbeat him handing over his lunch money.
29  We have some asparagus for lunch.
30  In field trip, the family had their lunch in the glade.