lunch out

Where, in six days of lunching out, was the best grilled cheese sandwich?

And when Paradise returns, please tell him we're lunching out."

It was somehow like lunching out of doors.

Mr. Bookman lunches out four days a week and occasionally double-lunches.

All these years I could have lunched out on the cachet of knowing a girl who can imitate mice with her muscles.

Did you lunch out somewhere?"

They'd both dressed in slacks and sweaters; lunching out for them had always meant getting away from cowgirl clothes for a few hours.

He came on with me to Hillingham, and found that, by Lucy's discretion, her mother was lunching out, so that we were alone with her.

"Even in the very worst summer for wasps, when, in lunching out of doors, our table was covered with them and every one else was stung, they never hurt me."

The more serious test came that evening when, having lunched out on a huge cote de boeuf, we were unexpectedly presented with the full fruits of our labours at dinner.

Since I rarely lunch out, preferring instead to cling to my yogurt carton, I would usually invite friends between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. for a late tea or drinks and a leisurely visit.

She wore a simple black woollen dress, as if already prepared for the funeral, but the double strand of pearls lying on her full bosom suggested she might also be prepared for lunching out.

Thither, then, we went, crossing the valley by a grassy trail; and there lunched out of the basket, sitting in a kind of portico, and wondering, while we ate, at this great bulk of useless building.

She had been shopping with her mother in the morning, lunching out and shopping again afterwards; they hadn't bought much, small presents for family and friends, but they had spent a good deal of time gazing into the enticing windows.

Miss Winchelsea awoke out of a happy reverie; she had been trying to realise, she said, that she was actually going to Rome, but she perceived at Helen's suggestion that she was hungry, and they lunched out of their baskets very cheerfully.

Lunching out would be a welcome break from her too intense thoughts, she decided as she followed him out to his car, smiling faintly as she noticed the impressive lines of the new registration BMW, commenting dutifully on it as she slid into the passenger seat.

So readers may come away without a clear notion of exactly what Mr. Korda, the editor in chief of Simon & Schuster, has been doing to earn his pay over the last 40 years or so, except for poring over manuscripts for hours on end and lunching out five days a week.

October 2006 - Miss Sherwood bans the school's pupils from lunching out at local food outlets including Subway - a decision which proves largely unpopular with pupils, parents and the local community; including one local person who criticised the policy as a "dictatorship" in a letter to the Express and Star.