Sentence examples for dumb waiter from inspiring English sources
noun
Alternative spelling of dumbwaiter
Jason Isaacs and Lee Evans in The Dumb Waiter.
The dumb waiter takes your cash and delivers your cakes and change.
The Dumb Waiter, written by Harold Pinter, is being staged by theatre company the Spartan Ensemble.
You put your money in a dumb waiter, shout out your order and say "Ave Maria".
"I did a one-boy show of Pinter's 'The Dumb Waiter' when I was about ten.
5: a double-bill of Harold Pinter's "Dumb Waiter" and Edward Albee's "Zoo Story," directed by Joe Mantello.
The council received two objections that the addition of two dumb waiters to the building would compromise its character.
They are the dumb waiters at the bottom of the art world's food chain.
Examples of this modern type of tragicomedy are Samuel Beckett's Endgame (1958) and Harold Pinter's The Dumb-Waiter (1960).
Meals for both families were prepared in the extensive basement with its large kitchen; the Ladiges' maid carried their meals up to the upper floor, while the Brooks received theirs via the dumb-waiter lift to the splendid dining room on the ground floor.
Fiks brings in, as a mute, dumb-waiter witness, the ghost of Guy Burgess, part of a holy coven of spies from the "right sort of people" in Cambridge, England, that included Donald Mcclean, Kim Philby, and Sir Anthony Blunt.
