Luncheon used in a sentence

Luncheon in a sentence as a noun

I don't get the not wanting to attend a luncheon like this. Men have had their boys clubs for a long time.

I remember going to a luncheon at GS where that was the major point. This was in 2006, and they predicted it would start in 2007 and culminate in 2008.

Hold a monthly luncheon to discuss your business and help each other grow. Find the ones you like best and refer business to them that you can't or don't want to do.

They also typically are looking for companies to sponsor a luncheon for a fairly small fee. Then, you get a chance to speak with some of them after the meeting.

On the way to his retirement luncheon, he discovered the programmer asleep at his terminal. He had been programming all night.

For example, my wife and I have dinner service for 9 in our house, so when we threw a sandwich luncheon for 30, we rented three dozen plates and punch glasses for 24 hours. I think it was about $40, and it was way nicer than using disposables.

They had a luncheon for "women entrepreneurs" which naturally took place in a much smaller room than the main dining hall. It's all well and good to try to encourage girls into science and technology, and I'm all for that; I wish my office wasn't 90% male.

I know that's kind of a generalization and not all organizations are like this but I doubt I'd ever go to a women in tech luncheon again either.

Google--some of us paid attention to the McCarthy Era in high school--hold a fun luncheon and go over that period in history with all your clever, brilliant employees? I am waiting for DDG to get some real money and kick Google.

I think it's also partly because the lunch specials in Chinatown or the sushi lunch are competing against sandwiches and other similar luncheon fare to a degree that they aren't for dinner.

So dinner eventually became the evening meal, and a new word had to be coined for the midday meal, hence 'luncheon' which eventually became truncated to just 'lunch'. All this was happening in upper-class society, mainly in London, so other regions and usages have retained 'dinner' to mean the midday meal.

And, back to the root point, telephony can be used to organize political activity, at least in the form of getting all the old gun nuts in town to show up for a luncheon with their state legislator.

There's no way the Pentagon actually cares what planes Denmark buys, so some Lockheed executive probably asked a congressman to do it at some DC luncheon, and then the congressman made a bunch of noise at the Pentagon, and somebody at the Pentagon made a bunch of noise at the NSA, and the NSA had some Georgetown flunky query a database with some names and email addresses and write a report. A perfectly banal waste of taxpayer dollars.

This can be accomplished in an informal luncheon or the like. The second type, they pull questions like these, trying to extract as much information from the candidate's personal life as possible--perhaps even asking for a Facebook password--or they put the candidate through coding hoops that don't really test talent but memorization and retention of Java-school-undergrad-level material that's just a single Google away.

He figured that sleeping eight hours a night meant that if he lived to be seventy-five he would have spent twenty-five years not at his desk but in bed, So he cut his slumber to six hours which meant he only lost eighteen years and nine months instead, And he figured that taking ten minutes for breakfast and twenty minutes for luncheon and half an hour for dinner meant that he spent three years, two months and fifteen days at the table, So that by subsisting solely on bouillon cubes which he swallowed at his desk to save this entire period he was able, And he figured that at ten minutes a day he spent a little over six months and ten days shaving, So he grew a beard, which gave him a considerable saving, And you might think that now he might have been satisfied, but no, he wore a thoughtful frown, Because he figured that at two minutes a day he would spend thirty-eight days and a few minutes in elevators just travelling up and down, So as a final time saving device he stepped out the window of his office, which happened to be on the fiftieth floor, And one of his partners asked "Has he vertigo?" and the other glanced out and down and said "Oh no, only about ten feet more."