Sample sentences for MATIN�E

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Definition

a daytime performance (of something like a movie or play)

We can still make the half-price matinée.

matinée = daytime performance

On Saturday, we perform both an evening performance and a matinée.

matinée = daytime performance

I'd made that date to go to a matinee with old Sally Hayes, and I needed to keep some dough for the tickets and stuff.
J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye

matinee = daytime performance

She did not need cake or a matinee movie to have the fine time.
Kaye Gibbons -- Ellen Foster

matinee = daytime performance

Wagner Matinee [story title]
Willa Cather -- A Wagner Matinee
The matinee audience was made up chiefly of women.
Willa Cather -- A Wagner Matinee
On Saturday afternoons, he took her on outings—to matinees, to free public rehearsals of the symphony, for strolls through the arboretum.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
We return you now to our studios and "Matinee Musicale."
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
There's a matinee at three o'clock that will leave plenty of time to return to our rooms and dress to go out.
Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
It's a matinee: I can get there, see the show, then take the bus back in time for my evening shift at the Swiss Chalet.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
"You could go to a matinee," said Georgina, "and eat popcorn."
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
"I'm taking Kel and Caulder to a matinee," he says.
Colleen Hoover -- Slammed
I'm gonna look like a matinee idol, Bubba, when you're walking the quad with your M-1 rifle slung over your shoulder.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
He was a great matinee idol then, you know.
Eugene O'Neill -- Long Day's Journey into Night
My wife and I stopped going to parks and matinees.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
They watched matinee crowds enter theaters and her mother made comments on the ladies' hats.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
The curtain having fallen for the night, the evening over, and the first act set for tomorrow's matinee.
Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
David Herold is a former pharmacy clerk who was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Like Booth, he possesses matinee-idol good looks.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
Our first circus, our first matinee, our first dead body—we arrived at these milestones together.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
Maybe we can go catch a matinee.
Sharon M. Draper -- Out of My Mind

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