• It was her father who suggested the visit, calling Ruma as she was making dinner in her new kitchen, surprising her.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Unaccustomed Earth'

  • Working at the bank, making dinner, reading my books, swimming at the Twenty Two in the summer, walking in the snow in the winter.

    NEWYORKER: Something Like Happy

  • My mom would be in the kitchen making dinner and talking on the phone, stirring and striding around with the phone tucked between her shoulder and her chin.

    NEWYORKER: The Other Place

  • Sunday afternoons find him at his New York home making dinner for his sons, the original Booker and Dax (10 and 7, respectively), and his wife, architect Jennifer Carpenter.

    WSJ: Dave Arnold, Cocktail Wiz

  • Although the house was now full his mother in the kitchen making dinner, Claire in the TV room pretending to do her homework, Gary on the couch in the living room as Max stared at the wolf suit it seemed to be calling to him.

    NEWYORKER: Max at Sea

  • So when you've got a house-full this Christmas, rather than interrupt the kids' cartoons or the big match, you can now browse through the On Demand movie listings from the kitchen whilst making dinner, and find the perfect film to watch later on.

    ENGADGET: Sky refreshes mobile app, lets you remotely download on-demand content to your Sky Box

  • In August 2011, Ligon sent her teenage son to the corner store get ketchup for the fries she was making for dinner.

    WSJ: NYPD program patrols inside private buildings

  • We took our time in the bar, wandering out to the Moose Room to listen to a local teenage piano prodigy who plays on weekends, gradually making our way to dinner.

    FORBES: Falling for Lake Placid Lodge

  • Implementing three healthy family habits--eating dinner together, making sure they get enough sleep, and limiting TV--may help.

    CNN: How to fight childhood obesity in 3 steps

  • Roy, earlier on you were saying that really they were making a pig's dinner of this, Labour, this particular crisis, and obviously Keith Vaz and all those things that were brought up by Mr Hinduja there, I mean it's up to Labour really whether this crisis has any effect is it?

    BBC: News Online

  • The CBI Scotland chief was making the calls at a business dinner in Inverness.

    BBC: Plane

  • Meals had to be planned to coincide with peak insulin levels, making it hard to see friends for dinner or to go on field trips.

    FORBES: Waiting to Inhale

  • As the dinner progressed, people started making comments.

    CNN: THE YEN TO TRAVEL

  • "She was also under pressure to ask her husband back to the house for Christmas dinner and all of that was making him more and more maudlin and anxious, " he said.

    BBC: Perth Sheriff Court

  • Capitalising on the chronic insecurity of Americans in matters of taste, she branded herself the ultimate authority on perfect living, be it making coasters from pressed pansies or whipping up dinner for 20 in half an hour.

    ECONOMIST: Face Value

  • After dinner, it's a relief to be making for the lights of Sag Harbor ahead.

    BBC: Escape from New York

  • Chief executive Hamish Morrison said that putting fishermen at the heart of the decision-making process would "help prevent the kind of dog's dinner of a deal done in Brussels last month".

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Skippers consider legal action

  • When I was discharged from the hospital, friends and family from all over came together to help me by making giant get-well cards from various schools or having friends make dinner for us on a weekly basis.

    CNN: Teen beating the odds after brain injury

  • But reporters are already making the news and spending as much time covering themselves as they cover the policymakers (See White House Correspondents Dinner).

    FORBES: If It's Sunday, It's Like Watching Paint Dry

  • He would raise his nose and sniff the air to see if he could guess what his wife had cooked for dinner, and then he went in to her, finding her always in the same posture, making him tea, fanning the fire in the hearth.

    NEWYORKER: Nawabdin Electrician

  • To commemorate the healthy choices families, schools, and communities are making in kitchens across America, the First Lady was proud to host the first Kids' "State Dinner" this summer, which welcomed 54 young chefs to the White House for a formal luncheon to celebrate their commitment to healthy, affordable recipes.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

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