meals

plural of meal

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of meals The Michelin Guide American South announced the restaurants in its 2026 guide Wednesday, offering diners a tool for finding good meals with exceptionally consistent quality and service. — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2026 The service Sprightly staff members are friendly, trilingual, and super-efficient, delivering six-course meals with impressive promptness. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026 The post goes on to say that UC Davis Health produces more than 6,500 meals each day, and that the hospital has increased its use of local and sustainable ingredients from 16% to 41% over the past decade. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026 Free meals account for about 70 percent of school lunches served daily, preliminary USDA data from last fiscal year show. — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026 Including cottage cheese in meals may also support blood glucose management by prompting a greater insulin response than some other proteins, according to a few small studies on both healthy participants and people with type 2 diabetes. — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026 Another 1,800 children are enrolled in the group’s Little Ripples preschool program, which also served 475,000 meals to students and staff last year. — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 While the restaurant now operates primarily as a to-go establishment, guests are still welcome to sit down and enjoy their meals on-site. — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 21 Oct. 2026 Instead of guessing what's normal, users can build a personal baseline, identify patterns—like digestive changes that coincide with certain meals—and share results with their doctors. — Angela Haupt, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meals
Noun
  • Now, 10 years later, through Keys Fisheries, her fish is sold in stores, and lionfish appears on restaurant menus throughout the area—and in doing so, millions of native reef fish have been saved from predation.
    — Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
  • December Come to Sicily for the citrus harvest, when menus abound with an abundance of local varieties.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Still other ultraprocessed foods – including sauces, condiments and ready-to-heat dishes like frozen dinners – show no consistent links to people’s health one way or the other.
    — Garrett M. Broad, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026
  • However, this is a far cry from earlier times when lawmakers met regularly, participated in spirited and substantive policy discussions, enjoyed informal dinners and even carpooled back home during congressional breaks.
    — John T. Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Changes to school lunches These school nutrition directors were surveyed in October 2025, and since then, additional factors may threaten the robustness of school lunch programs.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Those types of lunches were later served on lunch wagons and, finally, in restaurants like Ono Hawaiian BBQ.
    — Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Oct. 2025

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“Meals.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meals. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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