Sentence examples for table refused from inspiring English sources

The spoiled Alexei teased others at the table, refused to sit up in his chair, wouldn't eat his food and licked his plate.

You cut fruit for a salad for the nine-thousandth four hundred and fifty-second time, even though the person at your table refused to try even a little bite the first nine-thousand four hundred and fifty-first times.

If I were Mr Harris, I would currently be hiding under my kitchen table, refusing to answer the telephone.

Little of this stuff looked easy to live with; the man who bought the jars and a pair of monster-studded gold tables refused to give his name but did say he had not decided what to do with his purchases.

Take his dining room scenes: characters seated in caster chairs around a large invisible table refuse to stay put and physically pin ball themselves against one another [just like the dialogue]; and then in a moment's notice, the scene dissolves into something completely different with the simple flick of the choreographer's switch, conceived with football play-like precision by Alexandra Beller.

Snodgrass sat down at my table and refused the offer of a soft drink.

Ms. Volk eyed a plate of cookies at the next table, but refused dessert.

The jury at Durham county council offices in Easington was told that Rickwood was not violent but grabbed a table and refused to let go.

After a while, Jane got up from the table and refused to play, but the rest of them continued the game.

Nowhere are there vulgar displays in the vein of Diamond Jim Brady, who, reportedly, sat one fist's width away from the edge of the table and refused to stop eating until his belly touched wood.

Trained from an early age to defend their positions at the family dinner table, they refused to be silenced by codes of female propriety upon entering the wider world.