Sentence examples for close to the table from inspiring English sources

For example, the arms are short enough that they don't get in the way when you want to pull up close to the table or desk.

I feel like I've committed a crime!" It was something she would repeat later, with tears in her voice, when the observers and I tried to get close to the table where the paper ballots were dumped from the white plastic ballot boxes.

The Keekaroo Peanut helps make the changing table a bit more comfy, but also gives you a buckling strap and raised edges to help keep your lil' acrobat from tumbling off (you still need to stay close to the table, of course).

Then he sat down in a cavernous room in the White House complex and pulled his chair close to the table, hiding the bulges.

"They use the flowers as means to get close to the table, then, with their hand under the flowers, swipe the table of any valuables," one female officer tells me.

The granola (handmade of course) is so good that starlings, hornbills and, of course, the Vervets, wait anxiously, as close to the table as they dare, for crumbs, presents and unmanned cereal bowls.

Moving closer to the table.

Stiller bent closer and closer to the table, fretful about his errors, expressing pained admiration for my windmilling forehand and then smiling at my attempted nonchalance about it.

Michael Jordan!" A few minutes before, McCain had tried to move closer to the table and another player refused to make room.

When there is a wardrobe malfunction in front, a woman can place a napkin high in her lap or scoot closer to the table.

When a question was asked in Tagalog, the principal language of the Philippines, Mr. al-Ghozi, who is Indonesian, turned to his lawyer, but the prosecutor snapped, "You understand Tagalog," ordering him not to talk to the lawyer and to move his chair closer to the table where the investigators were sitting.