After dinner, they played games and laughed until bedtime.

Meaning: This sentence tells us that the girl and her parents had a lot of fun playing games together before it was time for her to go to sleep.

Choice of Words: After means following something else in time. Games are activities that people do for fun. Bedtime is the time when you go to sleep.

Alternative Expressions

Related Expressions

• After dinner, they played games together.
• After dinner, the family played games together.
• The children laughed and played after dinner.
• The child played with friends until dinner.
• They played until they were tired and cold.
• They laughed and played games together.
• They played games and laughed together.
• We laughed and played until the sun went down.
• They played hide-and-seek in the park until sunset.
• The children ran and played until they were exhausted.