Example sentences for: dined

How can you use “dined” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Implicit--and sometimes explicit--in every story about Nixon's comeback has been the underlying story of his calculated efforts to come back: He authored foreign-policy books, wined and dined journalists, and waged court battles for control of the White House tapes.

  • Though the singer drove a red Porsche convertible, she dined at Pizza Hut, shopped in malls, mowed her own lawn, and lived in a middle-class neighborhood in Corpus Christi at the time of her death (next door to her parents and brother, a detail left out of Selena ). The film faithfully records her status as a role model.

  • He had dined the week before with defeated Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson.

  • Stories of wasteful shoots abound: the matching seaweed that had to be flown from California to the Caribbean for a fashion photo; the Annie Liebovitz Vanity Fair cover shot of Arnold Schwarzenegger that reportedly cost $100,000; the Vogue shoot in Africa in which, an ex- Vogue editor claims, the photographer and his huge entourage wined and dined to the tune of "hundreds of thousands of dollars."

  • They were Degas' closest friends; he dined with them regularly and treated them, at a time when his own family was dispersed and in financial trouble, as virtually his own relatives.


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