(n.) A luncheon; specifically, a light repast between breakfast and dinner.
(v. i.) To take luncheon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
(2) Two lunches are recoded with John Yates and Andy Hayman, the former assistant commissioners.
(3) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
(4) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
(5) I watch three hours of Smiley, then I have lunch, then I write for a couple of minutes. '
(6) The existence of a circadian rhythm for GFR, uTP, uA, and uRBP was corroborated by spontaneous changes over baseline levels, which also were prominent after lunch CL as compared to those following supper CL.
(7) The school lunch contaminated by the infected food handler is the most probable source of this outbreak due to SRSV.
(8) In Palo Alto, there are the people who do really well here, and everyone else is struggling to make ends meet,” said Vatche Bezdikian, an anesthesiologist on his way to lunch on University Avenue, the main street, where Facebook first rented office space.
(9) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
(10) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
(11) I think the heart of good comedy really lives in truth and reacting to the absurdities, hypocrisies, abuses of power in the world.” Late night television is a no longer a glass of warm milk before bed, it’s a lunch buffet And as TV viewership declines and internet virality becomes as important as real-time eyeballs, cable networks might find that topical comedy is a smart, cost-effective way to grab cross-platform attention.
(12) Moving away from home and discovering oats (not a common ingredient in Transylvanian food), I thought about mixing the cultures and came up with this savoury breakfast or lunch dish.
(13) In one of his lunch breaks with Sleep, he told him that he had been tortured by the army, smashed over the head with the butt of an AK47 and left for dead.
(14) The traditionally larger meals of the day (lunch and dinner) represented higher proportions of daily intake in fat and obese children; the energy value of breakfast and afternoon snack was inversely related to corpulence.
(15) "Free school meals for all infant school pupils will save parents an average of £400 a year, and make sure every child can get the healthy lunch that will help them do well at school."
(16) For her two-year-old’s birthday, a swimming trip and family lunch was planned and yet friends would ask, “Aren’t you doing anything to celebrate?” As India’s commercial capital, Mumbai has long been home to some of the richest people on the subcontinent.
(17) More time in bed, more time with the kids, more time to read, see your mum, hang out with friends, repair the guttering, make music, fix lunch, walk in the park.
(18) Sitting in the back of Nigel Farage's Volvo, as we are driven from a long lunch in Tunbridge Wells to a town hall gathering in Windsor, at which the UK Independence party (Ukip) leader is due to speak, I'm struggling to dispute any of those findings.
(19) "Lunch was great, cricket was nice, it was a very English scene.
(20) In a tent for those recovering, a talkative man wearing a heavy gold chain played up to amused doctors during the lunch break.
Lunchbox
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Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Franck Allais and Ed Johns for the Guardian Thomasina Miers' banana bread recipe isn't too fatty, and keeps for ages so could last for a good few lunchboxes.
(2) Patel is confident he will not give up his serenity for the madness that the corridor promises to bring: “Even if DMIC succeeds in setting up industrial hubs that thrive, we do not want to become robotic labourers who carry their lunchboxes to work every day.
(3) Indian hit The Lunchbox also misses out, despite being tipped by many as a potential prize winner, as the organisation which picks the country's contender chose The Good Road instead.
(4) How could anyone believe it to be normal for a child to scavenge around bins to access waste; and to steal food from the lunchboxes?"
(5) They used to have a tradition: each warder would select a prisoner who was their "handy boy" who would carry their flask and their lunchbox.
(6) Be adventurous… It's time for parma ham, mozzarella and caviar lunchboxes.
(7) I've seen some whoppers in my time, but Dion's is something else" - his verdict on Dion Dublin's lunchbox, according to the then Coventry chairman Bryan Richardson, in 1994.
(8) The hack who had arranged to smuggle a letter into her daughter's lunchbox.
(9) New school years are dealt with by the purchase, in August, of pencil cases, lunchboxes and too-long trousers.
(10) Display cases show the shredded remains of a junior high-school uniform, the irradiated contents of a lunchbox and the frame of a tricycle – the small boy riding it was incinerated by the blast.
(11) But we all know that the daily grind of filling lunchboxes doesn't make it easy to come up with imaginative alternatives.
(12) Pakistani children returned to the school where Taliban gunmen killed 150 of their classmates and teachers on Monday, their green school blazers, Superman lunchboxes and hands clutched tightly to their parents a symbol of perseverance despite the horrors they had endured.
(13) "How could anyone believe it to be normal for a child to scavenge around bins to access waste; and to steal food from the lunchboxes?
(14) That would fit with an industry agenda to prevent or delay the uptake of a system that will allow parents to know how healthy the food is that they are putting in their children’s lunchboxes.
(15) Treats Strawberry fruit leather Photograph: Claire Thomson Claire Thomson's strawberry leather is a fruity treat for lunchboxes.
(16) Here is Tschiesche's recommendation for a fast, easy to acquire and nutritiously balanced lunchbox: • Pasta salad with vegetables and meat • Pot of low-sugar yoghurt • Fresh fruit • Drink of water or milk • Dried fruit or trail mix rather than cereal bars • Fruit juice or a fruit smoothie could be substituted for fresh fruit • Other alternatives include hummus and cut-up carrot batons
(17) Slices of rat brain sit in a plastic sieve balanced in a lunchbox filled with the fluid.
(18) The ideal school lunchbox should contain six elements: carbohydrates, protein, calcium, fruit, vegetables and a drink.
(19) Children go to school with mutant fruit forms in their lunchboxes – fruit strings, fruit shapes, fruit chews – that are made from juice and puree concentrate.
(20) Abolish the states and these lunchbox legends, who couldn’t cut it in federal parliament, would have to get real jobs.