Sentence examples for plate of dates from inspiring English sources

He was served tea and a large plate of dates.

As guests arrived, Huffington, who wore a dark-blue dress, held out a plate of dates and apricots.

When the sun set, as the ballots were being counted, a plate of dates and another of sugarcoated chickpeas was passed around.

The flags of Hezbollah and Lebanon were in a corner of the meeting room; a plate of dates and almonds was on a table.

Those with less cash could have satisfied themselves with a personalized selfie: Gandhi, a plate of dates, rice, and goat's milk, and a handmade sign, addressed to the buyer, that reads "BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD".

In the ballroom, people took seats at round tables set with pitchers of hot tea and plates of dates and cheese.

Not so long ago, Mr. Hassan held court in the presidential guest house, plying visitors with heaping plates of dates and cool glasses of mango juice as he explained how Sheik Sharif's transitional government would be different from the 14 failed transitional governments that came before it.

Sat in a living room decorated with Saudi artefacts and in front of a table carrying a plate of Saudi dates ("the best in the world"), she said: "The problems are because of the ruling ministers.

In Dearborn, the hometown of Henry Ford, there's an American Dream story and a plate of Medjool dates behind almost every door.

Plus this was the dawn of the small-plates thing, so nobody was quite sure what to order; whether the cheeses were supposed to come after dinner or as part of dinner; whether we were each supposed to order our own plate of bacon-wrapped dates or to surrender a communal order to the table.

The state does not know how many drivers are still using their out-of-date plates, but Mr. Seymour said the D.M.V. is aware some are still holding on to tradition.