Sentence examples for proper banquet from inspiring English sources
The Chinese were miffed: We spent so much money buying your stuff, and you won't even treat us to a proper banquet!
My friend Jean-Claude Ribaut, Le Monde's food critic, who had come along, agreed that the noodles were good, but decided we were in need of a proper Chinese banquet.
These will teach you the proper way to act at a banquet.
Tests will be undertaken this year, with a proper project planned for next year, for the restoration of the Room of Constantine, a huge banquet hall whose frescoes were designed by Raphael but executed mostly after his death, in 1520, by his workshop, Professor Nesselrath said.
So there were mock banquets and "afternoon tea trials," concocted conversations that served as tutorials on "proper verbiage," and dozens of check-ins and check-outs, although no guests had arrived.
Awkward questions about Tibet, Hong Kong and human rights in China proper, it seems safe to predict, will not be allowed to spoil three days of toasts, carriage rides and banqueting.
