Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use dine in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Dine means to eat; to eat dinner or supper. Example: “The condominium lacks a proper dining room, but has a cosy dinette.”

Examples of dine by meaning

verbTo give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.

  • I dined them, treated them, listened to the truth of their hearts, stole their names and through this means bluffed and bartered my way into courthouse, palace and colonial manor.2019 November 12, Claire North [pseudonym; Catherine Webb], chapter 60, in The Pursuit of William Abbey, New York, N.Y.: Orbit, →ISBN, page...

More sentences with dine

  • The condominium lacks a proper dining room, but has a cosy dinette.From the entry dinette
  • As it was a sunny afternoon, we decided to dine alfresco on the patio.From the entry alfresco
  • The limpid glass doors reveal the living room clearly from the dining room.From the entry limpid
  • I’ve bought a chicken in case grandpa should stay to dine.From the entry in case
  • The wonderful dining options in this city are hidden gems — an open secret.From the entry open secret
  • The restaurant's kitchen was separated from the dining room by a swinging door.From the entry swinging door
  • The dining room table sits eight comfortably.From the entry sit
  • Paintings lined the walls of the cavernous dining room.From the entry line
  • "I would like the dining room to be fully set by tonight; would you do so?" "Yes, my lady."From the entry lady
  • I rescued a set of antique dining chairs.From the entry rescue
  • The dining room had an ornate ceiling.From the entry ceiling
  • I had the honour of dining with the ambassador.From the entry honor
  • They dined in a sumptuous banquet hall decorated with gold.From the entry sumptuous
  • The living room and dining room adjoin each other.From the entry adjoin
  • We dined seaside and watched the gulls' antics.From the entry seaside
  • There's a small table in the breakfast nook, and there's a large dinner table in the dining room.From the entry dinner table
  • We dined oceanside and watched the gulls' antics.From the entry oceanside
  • We're planning to recarpet the dining room.From the entry recarpet
  • Before the tornado we had a dining room with a skylight; after it we had a roofless home with too much ventilation.From the entry roofless
  • So as to be able to use them for years to come, Susan decided to rewicker Grandma Rose's old dining room table chairs.From the entry rewicker
  • The paperhangers had just finished hanging the paper in the dining room when the interior decorator walked in and exclaimed that it was the wrong color.From the entry paper
  • The ubiquitous café is just a Frenchification of the old English coffeehouse, providing the ambiance of peaceful al fresco dining without actually moving any chairs outdoors.From the entry Frenchification
  • You could dine out on it for ever, so to speak.2026 June 24, Lucy Mangan, “Poop Cruise review – a fascinating look at a toilet disaster that still haunts passengers 12 years later”, in…. From the entry so to speak
  • Her net worth must value more than that of the rich people dining from Kuchisabishii.2024, Amulya Thomas, Hope, Writer's Pocket, page 216. From the entry kuchisabishii
  • Helmed by chef Anton Mosimann, this is one of the most prestigious dining clubs in the world.2023 August 23, Ellie Johnson, “Top prizes on offer at raffle for Railway Benefit Fund”, in RAIL, number 990, page 11. From the entry helm
  • Elevated dining areas without ramp access don’t allow wheelchair-users to be customers.2023 January 30, Sarah Grochowski, “Permanent restaurant patios go to public debate next month”, in Vancouver Sun, page A3. From the entry wheelchair-user
  • Sunak gave a well-intentioned but reckless subsidy to dine out during the pre-vaccine phase of the pandemic.2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times. From the entry pre-vaccine
  • If these nuggers and chips aren’t fine dining I don’t know what is.2019 May, Sophia Romanos, “Uni Food”, in Debate, number 5, Auckland University of Technology Student Association, page 13. From the entry nugger
  • His partner, artist Brooke Young, decorated the basic dining room with both masculine and feminine details.2018 April 1, Maureen Wallenfang, “Open: Wildflower Pizzeria gets cooking”, in The Post-Crescent, volume 99, number 72, page 1D, columns 3–4. From the entry living-roomy
  • The pair were sitting together at the dining table in Auntie Flip’s little house.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry swap places
  • Breakfast is awaiting you in our beautiful and dramastically renovated dining hall.2016 July 29, Christian Drennen, Through Fire and Flame, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2023. From the entry dramastic
  • The exaltation of a monarch was such that few were fit to dine with one.2014, Leonard Sweet, “Setting the Table at Home”, in From Tablet to Table: Where Community is Found and Identity is Formed, Colorado…. From the entry groom of the stool
  • From darning needle, however, New York has developed two new variants dining needle and diamond needle.2013, Janet Holmes, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, →ISBN. From the entry dining needle
  • I migrated to the dining car for smoked sturgeon and chleb.2013, Lawrence Winkler, “Back in the USSR”, in The Final Cartwheel, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry khleb
  • It says "Twenty Thousand Leagues," and in simple lettering below, it says "Fine dining."2012, J. L. Dobias, Cripple Mode: Hot Electric, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 612. From the entry signage
  • We looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to play whiff whaff.2012, John Hart, The National CV of Britain: A non-PC history of Britain, →ISBN. From the entry whiff whaff
  • The dining room was empty, but we had a living room to entertain and cool bedrooms.2012, Remo Kareem, I Am That Man..., page 32. From the entry on and popping
  • Dine 1 is a ‘monocase’ font that consists of a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters.2012, Robert Hillier, “The Design and Development of the Sylexiad Typeface”, in Nicola Brunswick, editor, Supporting Dyslexic Adults in…. From the entry monocase
  • Jonathan walked slowly down the stairs to the large dining room prepared for breakfast.2012, M. D. Johnson, “Vladivostok, Russia”, in Midnight in Moscow (The ISIS Project; 2), Minneapolis, Minn.: Mill City Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry grenki

Meaning of dine

  1. verb To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
  2. verb To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
  3. verb To dine upon; to have to eat.

Full definition of dine

Questions about dine in a sentence

How do you use dine in a sentence?
Dine is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The condominium lacks a proper dining room, but has a cosy dinette.”
What is a short sentence with dine?
“The dining room had an ornate ceiling.”
What does dine mean?
Dine means to eat; to eat dinner or supper.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dine (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use dine in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/dine. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.