Sentence examples for packets on the table from inspiring English sources

Let me lay my seed packets on the table: I am a Pavord groupie.

Jumping up, she tossed the packet on the table.

I kept silent, slowly spinning a sugar packet on the table with the tip of my finger.

Burke saw a half-eaten plate of noodles surrounded by soy-sauce packets on the single table inside.

He is on home ground, embracing the waiter, placing his cigarette packet on the yellow table cloth like all the regular customers and lighting up.

There is a packet of Strepsils on the table between us that lies unopened for the duration of the interview.

The only sign of breakfast was an open packet of cornflakes on the table, and a bowl and spoon.

In short, for ages people have been getting mad at me the second I set down a packet of cigarettes on the table.

The Academy's weighted voting system is complicated — one strategist I met for lunch stacked twenty packets of Sweet'N Low on the table in an attempt to demonstrate how it worked — but, basically, it's better to have a small, intense base of support than a wider, more tepid one.

Carmel clings to remnants of her real identity to stop them melting from memory: as they travel through America, she writes down her name whenever she can – in salt from little packets on diner tables, on the walls of restrooms, in the dust on the sides of trucks.

With a roll-up in her hand ("Smoking is my favourite thing to do in the world," she said in 2011 after a polyp on her vocal cords forced her to quit) and a packet of Garibaldi biscuits on the table, at that stage there was nothing notable about Adele beyond the clarity of her mezzo-soprano voice and a confidence that was more than just teenage cockiness.