How to Use dinner in a Sentence

dinner

noun
  • We're planning to ask them to dinner soon.
  • We had many pleasant dinners together.
  • Two hundred people attended his retirement dinner.
  • At the end of the day, bring your catch back to shore for dinner.
    Outside Online, 29 Dec. 2022
  • One of the most classic date ideas is to do dinner or a drink and a show.
    Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2023
  • No going out to dinner with just the coach and the player.
    New York Times, 25 May 2022
  • Girl dinner is fries for the table and a lil bowl of noodles.
    Savannah Smith, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Black-tie dinners with the wealthy are nothing new for Trump.
    Zac Anderson, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • Want to sip wine in Chile or have dinner in the desert in the United Arab Emirates for free?
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The app will tell you the restaurant location on the morning of the dinner.
    Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 18 Aug. 2024
  • The stars were seen strolling to dinner in the Big Apple side by side on Thursday night.
    Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com, 6 May 2022
  • Carter and Diane chatted for most of the drive after the group stopped for dinner.
    Christina Maxouris, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Follow up with dinner at their restaurant of the same name.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Great for dinner, and even greater for lounging around at home.
    Olivia Hosken, Town & Country, 31 Mar. 2023
  • One way to do this is to take yourself out to dinner at a restaurant or a movie.
    Cheryl Maguire, Washington Post, 26 May 2022
  • This would work well for church, the office, and Easter dinner.
    Amanda Ogle, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The crew heads out to dinner, and Diana hopes there are hot people there.
    Emma Soren, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The turkey dinner is $57 per person and the prime rib dinner is $65.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The first big event of the trip was a special dinner at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta.
    Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023
  • The restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
    Jason Dill, Miami Herald, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Aim to do about 10 of them three times a day—maybe during breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
    Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2022
  • What's your favorite meal of the day: breakfast, lunch, or dinner?
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Lunch was between 3 and 4 PM, and dinner was between 8 and 9.
    Men's Health, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Sheer dresses like these can be worn over any swimsuit to take your ‘fit the sand dunes to dinner.
    Seventeen, 28 July 2022
  • Tour is a series of special dinners and events through year's end.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 20 Sep. 2024
  • The 50 guests in there, some of whom were raving about our dinner, don’t matter one ounce, not one shred.
    Ashley Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Chocobanana: After dinner, beat the heat with a local favorite at the Chocobanana.
    J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine, 20 June 2022
  • The full-service soul food restaurant serves lunch, dinner and brunch.
    Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado july 20, Sacbee.com, 20 July 2025
  • Open daily from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. for lunch and dinner.
    Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 13 Aug. 2025
  • But the nonstop murder is keeping Hutch from making it home in time for dinner, away from his kids, and being around in general.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025

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