suppertime

• He'd become obsessed with the challenge of learning every single code block By suppertime, the red zone had begun eating into the neighborhood where Ond and Nektar lived. —  Asimov's SF, June2006
• So enthused was Sharif Abdullah at this development that he frequently invited Mtepwa into his tent at suppertime, and lectured him on the subtleties of the Koran far into the night. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 04-05 - October-November 1994
• Mr. and Mrs. Trevellas would have been quite happy to settle all their guests to cards or conversation until suppertime, but the young people had other ideas, and it was the second-youngest Grimshaw daughter who was finally bold enough to ask for a jig to be played on the pianoforte and who grasped the hand of young Henry Meeson and pulled him to his feet to add weight to her demand. —  Mary Balogh - Unforgiven
• We parted at suppertime, and after our meal Jem and I were settling down to a routine evening, when Atticus did something that interested us: he came into the livingroom carrying a long electrical extension cord. —  To Kill A Mockingbird
• Maybe the Hunter's people knew what to do about antibodies, but there were other tricks to the medical trade It was not quite suppertime, and Bob and the Hunter made their way to the creek, where the boys should be. —  Clement, Hal - Needle.htm

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