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How to use supper in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Supper means an optional light meal consumed shortly before going to bed. Example: “We normally have supper at 7.”

Examples of supper by meaning

nounAny meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.

  • We normally have supper at 7.

nounA meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.

  • a fish supper
  • Roisin the savior paraded into the front room with three fish suppers, one sausage supper, one single fish, one single chips, a single sausage, a chicken and chips, and three curry and chips.2014, Gerald Hansen, An Embarrassment of Riches

verbTo provide (a person or animal) with supper.

  • His Honour and Mrs Abbott graciously suppered me at Darwin’s Government House in a cool and wholesome lounge room.1942, Frank Clune, “A Paradise on Bathurst Island”, in Isles of Spice: An Extensive Journey through the Dutch East Indies, Indo-China and...
  • However, once the calves have been suppered, the dogs must be fed too.1984, John Barrington, “Glistening Glengyle”, in Red Sky at Night, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN, page 27
  • Most nights the boy they called Tynan suppered us with scrapple from a can.2021, Atsuro Riley, “Striplings”, in Heard-Hoard, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 14

More sentences with supper

  • She brought back a mess of fish to fix for supper.From the entry mess
  • Well, I must be running along now or I'll be late for supper.From the entry run along
  • I think I'll ask John and Betty round for supper on Friday.From the entry ask round
  • The cook prided herself on making the kitchen supper as delicious as the family's dinner.From the entry kitchen supper
  • The couple threw an impromptu kitchen supper when the dinner reservations fell through.From the entry kitchen supper
  • They were in a state of sleepy content after supper.From the entry content
  • Breakfast is the morning meal, lunch is the noon meal, and dinner, or supper, is the evening meal.From the entry meal
  • These crisps should hold me over until supper.From the entry hold over
  • Wouldn't you often have supper on the terrace on Sundays?From the entry wouldn't
  • Will you defrost the chops for supper tonight?From the entry defrost
  • The poor man's children went without supper.From the entry go without
  • Stop fiddlefarting around and come to supper!From the entry fiddlefart
  • We'll be serving supper buffet style.From the entry buffet
  • She hoped Amelia would choke on her supper when she saw Marc's tweets and photos.2020 March 10, Patricia Scanlan, The Liberation of Brigid Dunne: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry bioch
  • Chicken and rice bog for their supper so she wouldn't have to cook.2018, Ann W Phillips, Lady Of Esterbrooke. From the entry bog
  • I bought some frying steak this evening and had steak and chips for supper.2017, Cal Finnigan, Letters From The Suitcase. From the entry frying steak
  • Hefty bowls of kutia were passed around each table to start the traditional supper.2014 February 27 – March 12, Lidia M. Wasylyn, “Shchedry Vechir celebration a joyous success”, in Marco Levytsky, editor, Ukrainian News…. From the entry kutia
  • I made a pretence of continuing my supper, but I, too, had ceased to be hungry.2013 -, Kate Sedley, Green Man, →ISBN. From the entry mop up
  • We lived off the Scotch eggs the landladies put out for late supper, after the show.2012, Angela Carter, Wise Children, page 77. From the entry Wood family
  • What's come o' our supper, goodman, that you are coming toom-handed?2010, James Hogg, The Three Perils Of Man, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry toom-handed
  • “Why did we leave Vienna, Papa?” I cried, over our supper of marshmallow crèmes and caramel cakes.2009, Catherynne M[organ] Valente, “A Delicate Architecture”, in Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, editors, Troll’s-Eye View: A Book of…. From the entry marshmallow crème
  • "Pasghetti for supper is good news," said Frankie, holding out his plate.2006, Katherine Scraper, Vicki Scraper, Show Me: Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension Across the Curriculum, Good Year Books, page…. From the entry pasghetti
  • Anyway, we're going to have you and Cynthia up for supper."2005, Jan Karon, These High, Green Hills. From the entry anyway
  • Nobody's going to interrupt us, so we can talk during supper.”1995, Wesley Ellis, Lone Star. From the entry quite some
  • They’d eat your like for supper and wonder where the rest of the meal was.1985 March, Robert E[dward] Vardeman, Geo[rge] W[yatt] Proctor, chapter 8, in To Demons Bound (Swords of Raemllyn; 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace…. From the entry direwolf
  • Then it got banjaxed, at a supper party to which he brought me.1972, Edna O'Brien, Night, published 2001. From the entry banjaxed
  • That night at supper we heard the crash from the kitchen.1968, Elizabeth Spencer, This crooked way, page 156. From the entry loose-handed
  • Supper had been eaten, the turkey had been trussed, the children at last persuaded into their beds.1964, Hortense Calisher, “A Christmas Carillon”, in Extreme Magic: A Novella and Other Stories, Boston: Little, Brown, page 64. From the entry consolatory
  • Let us eat our last supper at it, like a hospital plate.1962, Sylvia Plath, A Birthday Present. From the entry mirrory
  • They were getting their second wind; and the word supper had had a wonderful effect.1951, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia, London: Geoffrey Bles, →OCLC. From the entry second wind
  • The K ration is packed in three separate boxes containing breakfast, dinner, and supper.1943 February, “12,000,000 meals a day”, in Popular Mechanics, page 86. From the entry K-ration
  • I was watching her before supper, and I’m sorry for Tony Lee.1933, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Queen’s Square. From the entry fast
  • After supper I felt nappy and dropped right off to sleep.1930, Hubert Evans, H. E. M. Sellen, The Silent Call, page 90. From the entry nappy
  • We have all-day Kensingtons, then we serve dinner and supper to the carmen.1922 November, “Loyal Star Department: Cedar Rapids, Iowa”, in Railway Carmen's Journal, volume 27, number 11, Kansas City: Brotherhood of…. From the entry kensington

Meaning of supper

  1. noun An optional light meal consumed shortly before going to bed.
  2. noun Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
  3. noun A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.

Full definition of supper

Questions about supper in a sentence

How do you use supper in a sentence?
Supper is used as a noun and verb. For example: “We normally have supper at 7.”
What is a short sentence with supper?
“a fish supper”
What does supper mean?
Supper means an optional light meal consumed shortly before going to bed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: supper (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.

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