Collocation
cook dinner
to prepare the evening meal by heating and combining ingredients
Definition
'cook dinner' is a common English collocation. to prepare the evening meal by heating and combining ingredients
cook + dinner
“I usually cook dinner at around seven.”
Examples
- I cook dinner most nights because it is cheaper than eating out.
- Can you cook dinner tonight while I help the kids with homework?
- We cooked dinner together and talked about our day.
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- She is cooking dinner right now, so please do not interrupt her.
- If you cook dinner, I will do the dishes afterward.
- He had already cooked dinner by the time I got home from work.
- We are going to cook dinner for everyone after the meeting ends.
- They cook dinner at home even on busy weekdays to stay healthy.
- I was cooking dinner when the power went out and everything went dark.
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