table's edge

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

"He'd cruise and trip and hit his face on the table's edge," Mr. Cheng recalled.

While she was gone, Mr. Marino stood up from the kitchen table and snagged his breathing tube on the table's edge, yanking it from his throat.

Mr. Leibovitz hit his tight spinners, while Mr. Gao hung back and teed off on long arcing shots that somehow found the table's edge.

Yoshiko, kneeling at the table's edge, sang little echoey phrases at the end of his lines — "sah, sah," or "well, well," an island tradition.

Opponents play ruggedly, anticipating the ball several feet from the table's edge; their game bears little resemblance to casual Ping-Pong.

One recent evening, Martin Cohen, the assistant restaurant manager, adjusted a Theo Fennell knife so its engraved "T" was perpendicular to the table's edge.

That work led to a few more collages on dance themes and, in 1940, to an odd experiment in which Matisse translated a new painting, "Still Life with Shell," of a seashell, apples, and serving vessels on a table, into pinned paper elements, with lengths of string for the table's edges.

Under dining tables, be sure the rug extends at least 18 inches from the table's edges, 24-to-30 inches is better, to allow chairs to move in and out without getting hung up on the carpet edge.

Once you master this, add more dishes and arrange some of them closer to the table's edges until you are prepared to do the trick with a real table setting.

The kitchen table's round edges match the round edges of the fireplace, which match the round edges of the ramp that leads from ground to second level like an inverted U.

A smooth, shiny, hardened wall of paint sweeps up from the back edge of the table, its nuanced sunset colors shimmering over a flat yellowish-orange ground that ends at the table's front edge in thick encrustations and gobbets of paint.