breakfast
eat an early morning meal
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,002 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 18,249 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.009% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- eat an early morning meal We breakfast at seven
- provide breakfast for
noun
- the first meal of the day (usually in the morning)
breakfast in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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She caught rattlesnakes for him, and spitch-cooked them for his breakfast.
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1
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Then she gave them each a bowl of bread and milk for their breakfast.
The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1
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Be this as it may, the arrangements for the breakfast and dinner must be made.
The Station · William Carleton · Chapter 1
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He asked the Clokes' daughter, laying breakfast, while Sophie plunged her face in the lavender bush outside the low window.
Actions and reactions · Rudyard Kipling · Chapter 1
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I dreamed I had one last night, and I intended to ask you at breakfast, but I was sound asleep.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1