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lunch period

n. the customary or habitual hour for eating lunch; "he observed a regular lunchtime" [syn: lunchtime]

Usage examples of "lunch period".

My assignment for this lunch period, as you surmised, is to ascertain whether or not you would be pleased to accept an engineering assignment in the Embryo Bank and, if so, which of the many areas you have seen today seems most interesting to you.

Logan was out of his chair in a flash, as if he'd been waiting for the invitation since the beginning of lunch period.

The bell rang (it was beginning to regulate my life) and the other faculty members appeared shortly for what proved to be a very restrained lunch period.

It cost her the rest of her lunch period to find out that the Maryland Department of Motor Vehicles is not equipped to trace a vehicle by serial number, only by registration number or current tag number.

The lunch period is only thirty minutes, and it takes about five minutes to get out of the plant and find a spot to sit, and another five to get back in again.

Not, mind you, that this after-lunch period is one of utter idleness.

They were the four who normally took the first lunch period from 12.

But immediately I sat down people poured in from all quarters and for the rest of my brief lunch period I could feel eyes burrowing into me from people who turned from the till to find me occupying a space obviously not designed for a solitary diner and that they would have to take their trays to the unpopular More Seating Upstairs section, evidently a disagreeable option.

I know our short lunch period is over and the general will be expecting us in Manhattan very soon.

Will all girls who made the final callback for the cheerleading squad please meet at the gym at the beginning of eighth-grade lunch period.

It wasn't her lunch period, but all the rules seemed to have been suspended that day.

She had an uncertain moment when I sent for the boy and asked him to bring me sandwiches and milk, but she fielded it nicely by phoning a pal to come and relieve her for a lunch period.