SUPPER in a Sentence
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226 example sentences for SUPPER, such as:
1. He has cast up his supper again.
2. You should weed the garden before supper.
3. Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.
4. Come back and finish supper, he commanded her.
5. Laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper.
2. You should weed the garden before supper.
3. Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.
4. Come back and finish supper, he commanded her.
5. Laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper.
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Meanings and Examples of SUPPER
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supper
n. a social gathering where a light evening meal is served
n. a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime
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.
2 And he pictured what it would be like that evening, when he and Mattie were there after supper.
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.
4 Come back and finish supper, he commanded her.
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.
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.
7 It was the consecrated formula, and he expected it to be followed, as usual, by her rising and going down to supper.
8 Ethan, supposing the discussion to be over, had turned to go down to supper.
9 "You're letting your supper get cold," she admonished him with a pale gleam of gaiety.
10 When supper was over she rose from her seat and pressed her hand to the flat surface over the region of her heart.
11 Suddenly he heard the old sorrel whinny across the road, and thought: "He's wondering why he doesn't get his supper."
12 All Starkfield was at supper, and not a figure crossed the open space before the church.
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.
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.
15 There was the click of china and the rattle of silver as Pork, the valet-butler of Tara, laid the table for supper.
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.