Sentence examples for over a tablecloth from inspiring English sources

In his novel "Coming Up for Air" (1939), the old bucolic town of Lower Binfield has unattractively expanded after the First World War and has "spread like gravy over a tablecloth".

He draped a tablecloth over a player's backside and ate some more.

For less strenuous antics, the next vitrine contains a small relief of a busy bacchanal of 15 romping putti, including one with a tablecloth over his head — a kind of prelampshade party act.

The family tried to cover the large crack by placing a tablecloth over the table.

If you decide to spend it there, make sure that you place a tablecloth over the available indoor picnic tables and a red rose ontop of it.

If you decide to spend it there, make sure that you place a tablecloth over the available indoor picnic tables and a red rose on top of it.

It's nestled into a back corner of our dining room, where we plan to throw a tablecloth over it and add a vase of flowers or a bowl of fruit to complete the disguise.

Nowadays it's generally indicative of the type of girl who puts a tablecloth over the shitty dormroom furniture and requires a day or two of "pajama-time" whenever she gets dumped.

Lay a tablecloth over the table.

You can use a card table, maybe with a tablecloth over it.

Throw a tablecloth over a large table, such as the dining table, and treat it as the "buffet zone".