How to Use lunch in a Sentence

lunch

1 of 2 noun
  • We took a picnic lunch to the park.
  • I bought her some lunch.
  • I had just a sandwich for lunch.
  • I like to eat a healthy lunch every day.
  • They've brought their own lunches with them.
  • The lunch pail was more than a prop.
    — Christina Daves, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Two easy back-to-school lunch ideas.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Quick, easy and 5 bucks for lunch.
    — Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
  • That means lunch was served just two days last week.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The kitchen is open for small bites or a full lunch.
    — Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Derek crushed many, many, many rolls at lunch that day.
    — Michael Russo, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This waste of a lunch set me back $20.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Maybe get this for a birthday desk lunch?
    — Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Open for lunch and dinner six days a week.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas Morning News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Open for lunch and dinner six days a week.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas Morning News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The air smelled faintly of lunch and feet.
    — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Breakfast and lunch are served here too.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Beans aren’t just for lunch or dinner.
    — Morgan Pearson, Verywell Health, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The spinosaurus is gonna need a bigger lunch.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The pair then make up and finish their lunch.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Some people can skip lunch; some can’t.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Have a fun lunch or talk to friends at happy hour.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026
  • And through all of it, the lunch staff keeps going.
    — Mark Glende, Twin Cities, 1 May 2026
  • Serve it for dinner or take it for lunch all week long.
    — Riley Wofford, Martha Stewart, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Or because the meet-and-greet lunch fell through?
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The café serves breakfast and lunch, along with take-out.
    — Pamela Brown, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Great spot for tasting in groups, and for a longer lunch too.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • The event will end with lunch and live music at the sports bar.
    — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • After the tour, the train heads back to the cider mill for lunch.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2023
  • And then there was the limp, damp baguette offered each day at lunch.
    — Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026

lunch

2 of 2 verb
  • She often lunches in the park.
  • The new menu panders to ladies who lunch.
    — Mackenzie Chung Fegan, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 June 2024
  • The latter is enough to get you through dinner and then lunch the next day.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2021
  • One table would be filled with the city’s power elite, the next—ladies who lunch.
    — Nancy Vienneau, Southern Living, 17 May 2026
  • The ladies who lunch are what the typical shopper may have been.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2020
  • The cafe was where the ladies who lunched could be found gossiping over gimlets.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • Make breakfast or lunch your big meal out and stay way under 20 bucks.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Ladies in hats and white gloves lunched in the tea room, while businessmen met in the male-only grill.
    — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 11 May 2017
  • This isn't traditional ladies who lunch.
    — Essence Editors, Essence, 18 May 2026
  • Taylor then rose to welcome all the fashionable ladies who would soon be lunching.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Living > Parties ’Tis the season for ladies who lunch to give back.
    — Vogue, 4 May 2018
  • Speaking of booze, lunching at the legendary Cloud Nine was a goal that year.
    — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Trendy cafés full of lunching locals surround the square’s grand statues and buildings.
    — Malavika Bhattacharya, National Geographic, 23 July 2019
  • And four of the six women Christy had lunched with came down with the same symptoms just a couple of days later.
    — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The pair spent the day meeting ball boys and girls, lunching at the club, and of course, watching some thrilling tennis matches.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 4 July 2019
  • The Tea Room was not just a place where ladies lunched, but a good spot for businessmen’s lunches as well.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Maybe lunching with his new family in a café on the banks of the Arno, Bruce Wayne style?
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 May 2023
  • Bottom-dwelling on these menus forced us into territory that ladies who lunch might be more familiar with.
    — Fox, Town & Country, 21 Nov. 2012
  • Milliners rejoiced, the mayor spoke, and 750 fashionable ladies (and some brave gents) lunched.
    — Jack Yeaton, Town & Country, 23 May 2017
  • This classic sunhat is perfect for lady who lunches—or the garden partier— amongst us.
    — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 23 June 2023
  • Either that or Lithgow lunched and dined on lasagna and banana splits for a year before filming commenced.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2019
  • The two young women shared a lot of the same friends and many of the same interests, and were soon lunching together every week.
    — Marcia Moody, Town & Country, 22 July 2018
  • Or, the center differential could have been lunched when it was towed, which would cost thousands of dollars to repair.
    — Ray Magliozzi, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 July 2018
  • As adults, the siblings lunched with their parents at Oxley Road on Sundays.
    — Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 14 July 2017
  • Three deputies were lunching in the Florida Panhandle area and were first to arrive.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 5 June 2018
  • One of their favorite places to practice good manners is lunching at Atlanta's iconic Swan Coach House.
    — Nellah McGough, Southern Living, 19 July 2016
  • One of their favorite places to practice good manners is lunching at Atlanta's iconic Swan Coach House.
    — Nellah McGough, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
  • For decades, presidents have lunched with network television anchors before the State of the Union to offer a preview of the speech.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2020
  • There were also regular updates on Brooke Astor, the late heiress, with whom my mother lunched from time to time—and here the tone of the report shifted.
    — Lucy Ives, Vogue, 23 July 2017
  • An evacuation was lunched, said a tweet from the Harrisburg Fire Department.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 7 June 2017

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