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I didn’t feel like cooking, so we ordered food instead.

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Sentence

Narrator

I didn’t feel like cooking, so we ordered food instead.

Study notes

How to use in different contexts

Giving Advice

If you don’t feel like cooking, you could order takeout instead.

Describing Habits

On busy weeknights, we often order food because we don't have time to cook.

Asking About Others

Did you feel like cooking tonight, or did you order in?

Sharing Hypotheticals

If we hadn't ordered food, we would have gone hungry.

Rephrased versions

Formal

Due to a lack of culinary inclination, we opted for food delivery.

Casual

We were too lazy to cook, so we got pizza.

Simpler English

We didn't want to cook, so we got food delivered.

Phrases to learn

feel like cooking

To have the desire or energy to cook.

ordered food instead

To choose to have food delivered or purchased from a restaurant as an alternative to cooking.