Word Finder - meal

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Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).

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Breakfast is the morning meal, lunch is the noon meal, and dinner, or supper, is the evening meal.

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Food served or eaten as a repast.

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A time or an occasion.

This is a fine meal, do you think?

After that I got to thinking how nice it would be if I had someone to cook me a meal every day.

We dined at a small Mexican restaurant and spent the meal discussing general topics.

It was stocked with meal bars.

I'd rather cook a nice meal and stay here with you.

Now his only concern was that she had his meal ready when he came home for supper.

But it was a good hot meal that brought me into the diner the first time.

They almost never enjoyed the first meal of the day outside of Bird Song, but the holiday was cause for exception.

Finally he finished his meal and scooted his chair back.

He was still watching her intently, his meal forgotten.

When the meal was over, Martha excused herself to leave.

At times, it may be best to just enjoy the meal and not ask too many questions.

Bread I at first made of pure Indian meal and salt, genuine hoe-cakes, which I baked before my fire out of doors on a shingle or the end of a stick of timber sawed off in building my house; but it was wont to get smoked and to have a piny flavor.

When the meal was over, I sought him out in the main room while the other crowded around the kitchen cleaning up.

By the time we'd finished our meal, with a piece of cake, there wasn't much time before the service was to begin and the pastor excused himself to prepare.

By the end of the meal, it was obvious that they had hit it off well together.

Doc, I need some meal bars, anti-sleepers, and pain killers.

Kelli giggled as she fed Jack the remainder of her meal as well.

By the time Dean had finished his meal, the traffic had thinned out, making the balance of the trip northward much more pleasant.

I rushed to a rest room and threw up a meal I didn't remember eating.

The rest of the meal was taken up with light conversation about the weather, the clinic, the animals... anything but their feelings about marriage.

I had in my cellar a firkin of potatoes, about two quarts of peas with the weevil in them, and on my shelf a little rice, a jug of molasses, and of rye and Indian meal a peck each.

Carmen shot a glance at Alex, who was giving his meal undue attention.

Why don't you go take a warm shower and I'll have a hot meal ready by the time you're done.

When she delivered his meal, he glanced up at her.

So can I. I got along before I hired you and I think I can manage one meal now.

Dean could picture the meal.

She turned away, concentrating on her meal, as if signifying that was all she had to say on the subject.

Edith Shipton sat nearby, long finished with her meal, oblivious to Gladys' tales.

She checked the status of the systems from her micro and downed dehydrated meal bars and anti-sleepers.

She carried little else than the lockbox, her micro, and enough meal supps and anti-sleepers for two weeks.

It was a sub­dued meal with neither mentioning the prior evening's conversa­tion.

Alex didn't like highly spiced food, so she decided to bake Cornish game hens for the base of the meal.

After a moment of thanks, they all began their meal.

He shrugged nonchalantly, but his gaze rested on her thoughtfully for a few moments before he finished his meal.

Would he soon grow tired of her showing up at his door, demanding a meal?

The party meal was a bust, with everyone aware that the next dinner would be absent one of their number, perhaps for good.

A genuine home cooked meal.

Elise held out a meal bar, which Lana accepted.

After paying the check he maneu­vered the wobbly woman up the stairs while she chatted merrily about the meal, the weather and the price of steak.

It was his first home-cooked meal in memory, if you could discount the occasional donated casseroles from Fred O'Connor's lady friends.

He simply complemented her on another great meal and went to feed the buffalo before it got dark.

Feeling rather peckish I thought I'd slip inside and treat myself to a slap up meal.

You won't have to go eat the other foods; the system will remember every meal you have had and will log your headaches.

I tried flour also; but have at last found a mixture of rye and Indian meal most convenient and agreeable.

Since everyone knew the way to a man's heart was through his stomach, she started with a special meal.

Howie paid for our meal.

We decided to take the evening off and have a nice meal in Boston.

Howie stayed with him through most of an uneventful meal before waking back to the present.

Do they know what makes you allergic to light and eat raw steaks covered in peanut butter for every meal?