TABLEAU in a Sentence
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10 example sentences for TABLEAU, such as:
1. She felt sure that the tableau was interesting.
2. History is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
3. The tableau vivant remained set among the squashed bluebells, nobody proffering a word.
4. At sight of this tableau, many of the men in blue sprang from behind their covers and made an ungainly dance of joy.
5. When her tableau was over, she could not help seeking Rhett's eyes to see if he had appreciated the pretty picture she made.
2. History is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
3. The tableau vivant remained set among the squashed bluebells, nobody proffering a word.
4. At sight of this tableau, many of the men in blue sprang from behind their covers and made an ungainly dance of joy.
5. When her tableau was over, she could not help seeking Rhett's eyes to see if he had appreciated the pretty picture she made.
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Meanings and Examples of TABLEAU
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tableau
n. any dramatic scene
n. a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)
Classic Sentence:
1 When her tableau was over, she could not help seeking Rhett's eyes to see if he had appreciated the pretty picture she made.
2 No other tableau had been received with that precise note of approval: it had obviously been called forth by herself, and not by the picture she impersonated.
3 The tableau all waned at last with the pallidness aloft; and once more the Pequod and every soul on her decks were wrapped in a pall.
4 At sight of this tableau, many of the men in blue sprang from behind their covers and made an ungainly dance of joy.
5 The cart must be tastefully ornamented; and if you and I dress ourselves as Neapolitan reapers, we may get up a striking tableau, after the manner of that splendid picture by Leopold Robert.
6 Then they both stopped rowing, and unconsciously added a pretty little tableau of human love and happiness to the dissolving views reflected in the lake.
7 The tableau vivant remained set among the squashed bluebells, nobody proffering a word.
8 She felt sure that the tableau was interesting.
Example Sentence:
1 Colonel Dent, their spokesman, demanded "the tableau of the whole;" whereupon the curtain again descended.
2 History is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.