dine out

verb

Definition of dine outnext
as in to snack

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Recent Examples of dine out Make Healthier Choices at Restaurants Healthy dining out does not always mean ditching your healthy eating plan. — Lindsey Desoto, Verywell Health, 19 June 2026 With Americans continuing to watch their spending on dining out, the survey highlights where travelers can stretch their food budgets the furthest while on the road this summer. — Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2026 Under this approach, the 70% category includes both necessities, such as housing, groceries and transportation, and discretionary spending, such as dining out and entertainment. — Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 23 June 2026 With the clock ticking before hitting the race with the all-new Cadillac team, Checo was spotted dining out Wednesday night with Related Group chair Jorge Pérez at Brickell Key’s newest hot spot, The Mexican. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 1 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for dine out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dine out
  1. snack
  2. mess
  3. breakfast
  4. board
  5. graze
  6. lunch
  7. pig out
  8. nibble
Verb
  • Potato skins are always a hit, and these mini ones are perfect to snack on.
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
  • Visitors can also snack on the sweetest offerings in the entire park in this section, where the Goofy Goobers ice cream shop includes a life-size recreation of the notable SpongeBob franchise treat, the Triple Gooberberry Sunrise sundae.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 30 June 2026
Definition of snack
Verb
  • There was something a little therapeutic about messing it up.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 June 2026
  • The sequence in which Carmy tries to talk Richie down from a panic attack feels equally dynamic and alive right to its conclusion — when Carmy pretends they’ve gotten locked in, just as Carmy once was, to mess with Richie’s head.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 June 2026
Definition of mess
Verb
  • Regina tries to dismiss Louis by saying she’s got to switch the diner to breakfast.
    — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Walking to my office generally means passing DJ Fawad’s food cart, a neighborhood fixture for coffee and breakfast sandwiches on the corner of Stone and Broad Street.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 22 June 2026
Definition of breakfast
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  • On a weekday, about 25,000 people board the Blue and Gold lines.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
  • Pilz, 24, who boasts more than 500,000 followers on both Instagram and TikTok, shared a video describing the confrontation while preparing to board the Lufthansa flight during the summer heatwave.
    — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of board
Verb
  • Hitting just below the knee or grazing the shin, the midi strikes the ideal balance of everyday ease and effortless polish.
    — Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 2 July 2026
  • Yet movies matter as an art form because the best ones graze our souls.
    — Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
Definition of graze
Verb
  • Ladies who lunch at The George cross paths with ladies who launch (startups, that is), men in smart suits are occasionally gala-bound, and creatives on laptops greet locals stopping in for a drink or afternoon tea under the ornate ceilings.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 May 2026
  • What would Sister, who lunched with the Astors and Whitneys, have thought of posting?
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 22 May 2026
Definition of lunch
Verb
  • The parting advice from her mother (an excellent, sparingly used Ariane Labed) is to wear her glasses, read everyday, and to not pig out.
    — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
Definition of pig out
Verb
  • While nibbling deer and pesky rodents might require one approach, something else, like snakes, will require another.
    — Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 3 July 2026
  • To her, the bill leapfrogs local jurisdictions just to nibble at the edges of what’s driving housing costs.
    — Mark Dee June 29, Idaho Statesman, 29 June 2026
Definition of nibble

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“Dine out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dine%20out. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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