Sentence examples for squeeze a table from inspiring English sources

IKEA invented flat-packed furniture in 1951, when an employee named Gillis Lundgren, struggling to squeeze a table into the back of his Volvo, decided to remove the legs.

The Romney camp ran film of Kennedy struggling to squeeze behind a table.

It's a ceaseless, riotous cascade of Irish yammering, from the operatic scoldings of Frank's ma to the chatter of his four siblings as they squeeze around a table in the corner pub.

In a cluttered office in the centre of Mogadishu, a dozen men in suits squeeze round a table to haggle politely over the price of business licenses.

I was directed to sit across from a solo woman several decades my senior – we were the third and fourth party squeezed into a table for six.

CHICAGO — At a cheerful cafe and neighborhood gathering spot, eight women squeezed around a table, with bottomless cups of 35-cent coffee and plenty to do between the salads and paninis.

A family of six that was squeezed around a table next to us made themselves right at home; the kids kept themselves busy poking bamboo skewers through Styrofoam cups.

I followed the man into a back kitchen where chefs fried empanadas and a group squeezed around a table eating cookies and passing around a mug of mate tea.

The Romney campaign ran an ad that showed Kennedy trying to squeeze himself behind a table.

Families shove and tourists are few; you choose and pay from whichever stall or stalls you fancy, squeeze on to a table and your dinner arrives.

Gail Collins: I always like to tell the story about a very trim and athletic Republican who ran for Senate against Ted Kennedy during one of Kennedy's fat periods, running ads that showed Kennedy trying to squeeze himself behind a table.