Sentence examples for at banquet from inspiring English sources

Ms. Bernhard, with a snapping-turtle wit, took the podium while guests munched kale salad at banquet tables with kente cloth and beach balls.

From the Ghastly Garden, we're led into a long stone hall to sit at banquet tables while the Twits mount a tiny stage at the far end.

They had already been feuding for weeks about such trivialities as who would stand where in receiving lines, and who would sit next to whom at banquet tables.

But by the time they sat down at banquet tables with purple tulips for pan-seared duck and baked branzino, they were wielding cellphones as if they were steak knives.

You might actually get to do that during "ROMP," in which the audience sits at banquet tables with the performers and roams the space around their careening, colliding bodies.

The audience is kept moving between these spaces, each time taking a different place, sometimes in regular seats, sometimes standing on risers, and even, at the Emperor Maximilian's court, sitting at banquet tables set with glasses of real wine.

There, seated at banquet tables worthy of Rabelais, we gorged on fried potatoes with morels, sturgeon, quail and duck liver, and watched elaborate floor shows – dancing girls, costumes, smoke – stunned by the food and the spectacle.

In 1949, after becoming prime minister of the newly established People's Republic, Mr. Zhou designated the sorghum-based liquor, called Moutai, China's "national wine," giving it an undeniable marketing edge over the other gullet-searing grain spirits, collectively known as baijiu, tossed back at banquet tables across the nation.