SUPPER in a Sentence

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For SUPPER, below is one of 226 sentences:
They finished supper, and while Mattie cleared the table Ethan went to look at the cows and then took a last turn about the house.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUPPER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
supper
 n.  a light evening meal
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Zeena always went to bed as soon as she had had her supper, and the shutterless windows of the house were dark.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  And he pictured what it would be like that evening, when he and Mattie were there after supper.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  She set the lamp on the table, and he saw that it was carefully laid for supper, with fresh doughnuts, stewed blueberries and his favourite pickles in a dish of gay red glass.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  Come back and finish supper, he commanded her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
5  They finished supper, and while Mattie cleared the table Ethan went to look at the cows and then took a last turn about the house.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
6  He was not sorry to assure himself of Jotham's neutralising presence at the supper table, for Zeena was always "nervous" after a journey.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
7  It was the consecrated formula, and he expected it to be followed, as usual, by her rising and going down to supper.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  Ethan, supposing the discussion to be over, had turned to go down to supper.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
9  "You're letting your supper get cold," she admonished him with a pale gleam of gaiety.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
10  When supper was over she rose from her seat and pressed her hand to the flat surface over the region of her heart.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
11  Suddenly he heard the old sorrel whinny across the road, and thought: "He's wondering why he doesn't get his supper."
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
12  All Starkfield was at supper, and not a figure crossed the open space before the church.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
13  Old Mrs. Varnum, by this time, had gone up to bed, and her daughter and I were sitting alone, after supper, in the austere seclusion of the horse-hair parlour.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
14  A little aloof, as became an aristocrat, lay a black-spotted carriage dog, muzzle on paws, patiently waiting for the boys to go home to supper.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  There was the click of china and the rattle of silver as Pork, the valet-butler of Tara, laid the table for supper.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.
2  After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a while.
3  He has cast up his supper again.
4  Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.
5  There they will supervise their cooks in preparing supper for the husbands, who will troop home after Happy Hour.
6  He that saves his dinner will have the more for his supper.
7  Laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper.
8  You should weed the garden before supper.
9  He only drank a cup of black tea and nibbled at a piece of dry bread for his supper.
10  She put a leg of mutton into the oven to roast it for supper.
11  Exhausted by their exploits that day the two boys had supper and fell asleep, dead to the world.
12  My sister and I stroll through the streets after supper.
13  They built a fire against the side of a great log, and then cooked some bacon in the frying-pan for supper.
14  So he took him to his own house, and dressed him up clean and nice, and had him to breakfast and dinner and supper with the family, and was just old pie to him, so to speak.
15  They built a fire against the side of a great log twenty or thirty steps within the sombre depths of the forest, and then cooked some bacon in the frying-pan for supper, and used up half of the corn "pone" stock they had brought.