Examples of tableful in a Sentence
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That morning, a tableful of F.B.I. SWAT operators were sitting nearby, dressed in fatigues, silently inhaling their food.
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Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
Word of the weekly dinners began to spread: shared between cubicles at City Hall; passed from one neighbor to another in apartment elevators; overheard on walking tours, in local parks and from a tableful of strangers at Sunday brunch.
—Liz Leyden, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
In 2009 Kimball masterminded a 12-course dinner straight from the original cookbook, prepared by a team of cooks using authentic ingredients, cooked over an antique woodburning stove, and served to the acclaim of a tableful of guests.
—CBS News, 7 Jan. 2018
A chicken dinner, with soup, salad and a tableful of fixins is around $18.
—Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 7 July 2017
Platters are huge; a tableful of eaters may be better off ordering a la carte ($15 for broth; $6.95-$8.95 per meat; and $2.95-$3.95 per vegetable) rather than the combo.
—Eric Velasco, AL.com, 16 June 2017
With the help of headphones and a tableful of interpreters, the meeting was translated in 10 different Asian languages, including Cantonese, Mandarin, Mongolian and Korean and Tagalog.
—Ana B. Ibarra and Kellen Browning, Kaiser Health News, 5 June 2017
Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
Word of the weekly dinners began to spread: shared between cubicles at City Hall; passed from one neighbor to another in apartment elevators; overheard on walking tours, in local parks and from a tableful of strangers at Sunday brunch.
—Liz Leyden, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2018
In 2009 Kimball masterminded a 12-course dinner straight from the original cookbook, prepared by a team of cooks using authentic ingredients, cooked over an antique woodburning stove, and served to the acclaim of a tableful of guests.
—CBS News, 7 Jan. 2018
A chicken dinner, with soup, salad and a tableful of fixins is around $18.
—Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 7 July 2017
Platters are huge; a tableful of eaters may be better off ordering a la carte ($15 for broth; $6.95-$8.95 per meat; and $2.95-$3.95 per vegetable) rather than the combo.
—Eric Velasco, AL.com, 16 June 2017
With the help of headphones and a tableful of interpreters, the meeting was translated in 10 different Asian languages, including Cantonese, Mandarin, Mongolian and Korean and Tagalog.
—Ana B. Ibarra and Kellen Browning, Kaiser Health News, 5 June 2017
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“Tableful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tableful. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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