How to Use tableau in a Sentence

tableau

noun

• The houses are grouped together in a charming tableau.
• And that was the character of the tableau on the stage.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 27 June 2019
• In 2004, this bridge was the site of a gruesome tableau.
  — John Daniszewski, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• This calming tableau is the break your eyes need from screen time.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 22 Aug. 2023
• The streets of Kyiv once again were a tableau of destruction not seen since the early days of the war.
  — Cora Engelbrecht, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
• The idea was to transform the group into a seamless bird tableau.
  — Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• The tableau might just contain members of the next big set of TV anchors, too.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 29 Apr. 2022
• Each piece is, in its way, a tableau come to fluid life, with drama to spare.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2021
• As the tableau kicked into a rollicking gear, so too did the maskers.
  — The Masked Observer, al, 25 Feb. 2022
• Here, in one tableau, all ages and stages can be found thriving 20 years after the Cedar fire passed through.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2023
• Non-parading groups will just have a ball, a tableau or an opening skit.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024
• To the uninitiated, the tableau at the checkpoint looks out of control.
  — Robert Draper, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• The scene isn’t a real sculpture at all but rather a girl dressed in gold from head to toe, standing in tableaux.
  — Faith E. Pinho, latimes.com, 12 June 2019
• James Nachtwey’s photograph from Bucha, Ukraine, is a wartime tableau cluttered with the stuff of life.
  — The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2022
• In each level, the player confronts one of the crime scenes, unearthing clues in its frozen tableau.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
• Even the sea gulls, whose cawing and mewling were so much a part of the commotion of the Bosporus, fell in line with this solemn tableau.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2022
• History will not forget the tableau at the White House as Biden walked to the lectern flanked by two Black women.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2022
• With 104 cards to begin with, the player wins the game when the tableau is completely empty.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• This year, red mums add to the colorful tableau, and pumpkins are perched even high above Young’s front door.
  — Jessica Contrera, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2023
• The unique art offers a textured tableau ripe for a variety of hues.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 12 May 2021
• This tableau was about 100 yards from a playground with swings and slides, nestled beneath a woodsy shade.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2022
• The final movement, a hunting song, more evoked a genteel tableau than a chase.
  — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2019
• Elaborate swords flanked the men, and a number of gaming pieces were strewn over this strange tableau mourant.
  — Karin Altenberg, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2020
• However, the drink missing from this tableau is Gatorade.
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Jan. 2024
• The fire, which killed at least 115 people, turned all that to a toxic, ashy tableau and scattered its caretakers.
  — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• In the gorgeous, gory tableau, the dying ruler appeared trapped at the center of a bloody web, as though tethered there by entrails.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2019
• Pearl Harbor was now a tableau of wrecked and burning ships, and dead and injured sailors, soldiers, Marines and civilians.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2021
• The message of the closing tableau, though, should have been unmistakable.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Amid a tableau of troubled souls, Lasker-Wallfisch descends as a dea ex machina of ironic reason.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2024
• During the opening ceremony, Butch was in the center of the tableau, DJing while sporting a silver headpiece and blue dress.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 30 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024