PICNIC in a Sentence

picnic

 v.  have informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion

 v.  eat in the open air

1  "There's where we sat at the picnic," he reminded her.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX

2  Everybody was riding out Peachtree road to gather greenery and have a picnic and melon cutting.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

3  Everybody was going to the picnic except her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

4  War would be a picnic if it wasn't for lice and dysentery.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX

5  Dazzled by these tales, freedom became a never-ending picnic, a barbecue every day of the week, a carnival of idleness and theft and insolence.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII

6  It was like a picnic for them to spend so long a visit with Aunt Melly.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX

7  Let's get up a picnic down the lake for this afternoon.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX

8  So the picnic of Carol, Fern, Erik, Cy Bogart, and the Dyers was not only moral but inevitable.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX

9  As they reached the picnic ground she perceived that it was dark, that they had been gone for a long time.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX

10  Cy says you had lots of fun at the picnic yesterday.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX

11  It was at the Baptist church supper, a week after the picnic, that she saw him again.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX

12  She had made it on a September day when she had been planning a picnic for Fern Mullins and Erik.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV

13  Mr. and Mrs. David Dyer, Mrs. Dyer's sister, Mrs. Jennie Dayborn of Jackrabbit, and Dr. Will Kennicott drove to Minniemashie on Tuesday for a delightful picnic.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI

14  I've been thinking about getting up an annual Community Day, when the whole town would forget feuds and go out and have sports and a picnic and a dance.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX

15  Anna's to drive us down in the Marshalls' delivery wagon, and we'll take a nice lunch and have a picnic.

My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV

1  Bees were buzzing around the picnic tables.

2  Too often, picnic preparation consists of throwing together some sandwiches and grabbing an apple.

3  Lets have a picnic down by the river.

4  In the middle of the picnic it started to rain cats and dogs,and everybody got soaked.

5  Children went on a picnic and frolicked in a field.

6  We did not figure on having so many people at the picnic.

7  Find level ground for the picnic table.

8  If the weather's nice we could have a picnic in the park.

9  Being a single parent is no picnic, I can tell you.

10  I'll provide food for the picnic.

11  One spring day the school arranged a picnic.

12  We will picnic near the lake on this gorgeous Sunday.

13  That place is an idyllic spot for a picnic.

14  Sometimes a stack of people would come there, horseback, from ten or fifteen mile around, and stay five or six days, and have such junketings round about and on the river, and dances and picnics in the woods daytimes, and balls at the house nights.