Sentence examples for around a breakfast table from inspiring English sources

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With only half the ship's cabins occupied, we learned each other's names and faces with relative ease, and it was common for strangers to coalesce around a breakfast table or trade stories of the day's adventures in the evening.

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There is also a formal dining room, and the kitchen, which faces south, could fit a breakfast table Original oak floors and cove molding around the ceilings run throughout.

But even when the zombie apocalypse rages around the globe and threatens to wipe out the human species, its effects are best shown with a Chekhovian closeness — say, around a specific breakfast table or in the back seat of a specific family station wagon, where a doting and affable Aunt Betty turns suddenly bad and chomps a huge glob of flesh out of the nearest relative's face.

"Here in Turkey, you can try before you buy!" Loot in hand, we stepped into a deserted arcade where we gathered around a makeshift breakfast table covered in newspaper.

A bigger disappointment is that getting the comics on a Web page has changed reading comics from a communal activity done with my wife and family around the breakfast table to a solitary activity that I do in front of the computer screen.

That all of this (a family sitting around the breakfast table soberly discussing Harry's romance with another fly) is underplayed with straight faces only enhances the exquisite absurdity.

Cooking eggs – whether fried, poached, or, as in this week's theme, scrambled – seems to cause a lot of debate around the breakfast table.

It is the kind of letter that might well lead to a distinctly uncomfortable conversation around the breakfast table: this month, between 20,000 and 30,000 German households received legal warnings for having viewed copyrighted pornographic films via the streaming website RedTube.com.com

Placing ads with cornfields sparkling in the sun and families gathered around the breakfast table enjoying cornflakes while a contented mother looks on is simply a ploy to pull the wool over our eyes.

A few years later, we were sitting around the breakfast table and she invited me to take a puff.

The smaller roles count, as well, from Sarah Crowden — as a bossy hotelier whose affection for those gathered around her breakfast table is self-evident — to Clive Wood, in terrific form as a squadron leader nicknamed "Gloria" by his subordinates who performs his duties nevertheless without a trace of camp.

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