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How to use banquet in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Banquet means a large celebratory meal; a feast. Example: “The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.”

Examples of banquet by meaning

nounA large celebratory meal; a feast.

  • And the sun, even as you and I and all there is, sits in equal honour at the banquet of the Prince whose door is always open and whose board is always spread.1933, Kahlil Gibran, The Garden of the Prophet
  • During coverage of the first great banquet, correspondents—who had not been given menus—variously described those little orange balls decorating the table’s center as pomegranates, oranges or JellO. (They were actually North China tangerines.)1972 March 6, “China Coverage: Sweet and Sour”, in Time

More sentences with banquet

  • The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.From the entry table
  • The prince honored me with an invitation to his birthday banquet.From the entry honor
  • Not wishing to attend the banquet, I pleaded illness.From the entry plead
  • The wooden table groaned under the weight of the banquet.From the entry groan
  • They dined in a sumptuous banquet hall decorated with gold.From the entry sumptuous
  • The banquet was topped off with coffee and chocolate.From the entry top off
  • To keep costs down at our wedding, we only had family at the banquet, but invited all our friends to the afters.From the entry afters
  • We never find it with banquets, where the soccus and the solea prevail.2022, Jan Radicke, Roman Women's Dress..., p. 99. From the entry calceus
  • That evening, the conference banquet was held at a restaurant in the Tamsui District.2018, Brooks Davis, “Conference Report”, in FreeBSD Journal, page 24. From the entry Tamsui
  • The Klingon banquet features Klingonian food, games and a variety show.2008 July 10, Jennifer Choi, “At Shore Leave, a sci-fi mind-meld”, in The Sun, 171st year, number 192, Baltimore, Md., page 8T. From the entry Klingonian
  • YE OLDE ENGLISHE CHRISTMASSE FEASTE: Nine course authentic Renaissance festival banquet.1993, “10-13. Kenosha”, in Wisconsin Annual Events, page 38. From the entry -e
  • The Foreign Correspondents Association's annual banquet last week turned into an angry slanging match.1988 November 21, “World Notes SOUTH AFRICA”, in Time. From the entry give as good as one gets
  • Reagan displayed his usual aplomb and even cracked wise about his age at a White House banquet.1985 August 5, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., “Coming Along Just Fine”, in Time. From the entry crack wise
  • Angus Hibbard, of New York, Fridayed and Saturdayed in Chicago, for the show and banquet.1913, Bell Telephone News, volume 3, page 5. From the entry Saturday
  • For three days Emmanuel Macron was wooed and fêted by Donald Trump, treated to marching bands and banquets.2018 April 27, William Cook, “Are Macron and Merkel playing good cop, bad cop with Trump?”, in The Spectator. From the entry fete
  • I did not doubt that a few very attentive as observers, could be invited to such a Uranian banquet.2012, Jeremiah Horrocks, “What Others Observed or could have Observed of This Conjunction”, in Wilbur Applebaum, transl., Venus Seen on…. From the entry uranian
  • In the hotel restaurant, we had a seventeen-course banquet that we washed down with vodka, cognac, and beer.2011, V Traven, Memoirs of a Dromomaniac, page 115. From the entry farctate
  • Where to begin with this little banquet of horrors?2011, Rob Grant, Fat. From the entry leavable
  • The gleam of Manhattan's moneyscapes – the lavish fundraising banquets, the mansions, the clothes – have an Arabian Nights allure.2010 September 23, Peter Rainer, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps: movie review”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry moneyscape
  • The Anyang County police organized a banquet.2005 September 21, Joseph Kahn, “Deep Flaws, and Little Justice, in China's Court System”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry Anyang
  • She froze, turned white and made the long fall, straight down, face first into a banquet trolley of half-eaten food scraps.2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 11. From the entry banquet trolley
  • Eighteenth-century French gastronomes labored for days to perfect exquisite banquets; our Yank microwavery can produce equivalent gastric distress within seconds.1991, SPIN, volume 7, number 7. From the entry microwavery
  • We sat in a banquet room in the Great Hall of the People and enjoyed a fabulous meal of Peking duck.1980, Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry Peking duck
  • Grabber at life's banquet follows a fortune to doom.1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 265. From the entry fisticuff
  • So, to this day, the York refreshment room is extraordinary; the dining room is a regular banqueting hall.1941 August, C.Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 356. From the entry refreshment room
  • Taylor reported that at 7:30, instead of on Tuesday night at the banquet would be held on Monight.1917, American Bottler, volume 37, kJlRAAAAYAAJ, page 40. From the entry Monight
  • The patients duly offered a banquet to appease the zumbi, but in Modena’s view the only purpose of the ritual was to invoke the demon.2021, Kalle Kananoja, Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa, page 41. From the entry zumbi
  • Wu Zhen runs a family business of 13 restaurants and dozens of banquet halls in Yingtan, a city in China’s southeastern Jiangxi Province.2021 April 15, Alexandra Stevenson, Cao Li, “China’s Economy Is Booming. Shoppers Are Skittish Anyway.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry Yingtan
  • It inspired Salcedo to want to play for the Bruins, especially after the team awarded him a championship ring at its postseason banquet.2018, Ben Bolch, 100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (page 297). From the entry longest
  • Instead of eating at fancy banquets with the president, we were drinking tea and eating ugali and sukumawiki,” or maize flour and greens.2015 July 26, Peter Baker, “Obama Delivers Tough-Love Message to End Kenya Trip”, in New York Times. From the entry sukumawiki
  • The imagery is that of marriage, the iconographic theme was borrowed from the banquet, but these divine couples are not participating in a symposion.2011, Pauline Schmitt Pantel, “Dionysos, the Banquet and Gender”, in Renate Schlesier, editor, A Different God? Dionysos and Ancient…. From the entry symposion
  • The banquet meal consisted of kebapi, burek, and tavce gravce, AKA grilled meat, cheese and spinach pie and white beans, with tumlumpa for dessert.2011 October, Eileen Kopec, “2011 Stockton Folk Dance Camp”, Eye on Dance by Eileen, in Gary Anderson, editor, Let's Dance!, volume 68…. From the entry Bulgrecian
  • Sometimes, with sentries posted, after a banquet with the Olympianly bearded priest, the mayor and the village elders, we would stay the night.2010, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Words of Mercury, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry Olympianly
  • When I arrived at a banquet to do a story about local volunteer firefighters, one of the volunteers said, “Come on in.2007, Entrepreneur Press, Roscoe Barnes III, Public Relations Made Easy, [Irvine, Calif.]: Entrepreneur Press, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry fish-wrapper
  • During the royal hunt, the Shang killed wild beasts with reckless abandon, and consumed hecatombs of domestic animals at a bin banquet or a funeral.2006, Karen Armstrong, “The Axial Peoples (c. 1600 to 900 BCE)”, in The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions…. From the entry hecatomb
  • They specialize in all sorts of events, such as athletic competitions, fairs, and conventions, as well as receptions, banquets, and street food.2002, Mary Deirdre Donovan, Careers for Gourmets and Others who Relish Food. From the entry street food
  • Through June and July, the resort celebrates Yulefest and fully decorates the venue with Christmas decorations and offer special Yuletide banquets and dining.1996, Australian Hotelier: Official National Magazine of the Australian Hotels Association, Volume 13. From the entry Yulefest
  • The Hotel Intourist has a lively banquet hall with tasty bifshtek and potatoes, and mushroom-stuffed egg appetisers; a full meal costs US$4 to US$5.1996 July, John Noble, Andrew Humphreys, Richard Nebeský, Nick Selby, George Wesely, John King, “Elsewhere in Belarus – Brest”, in Russia…. From the entry bifshtek

Meaning of banquet

  1. noun A large celebratory meal; a feast.
  2. noun A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
  3. noun A dessert; a course of sweetmeats.

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Questions about banquet in a sentence

How do you use banquet in a sentence?
Banquet is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The baron kept a fine table and often held large banquets.”
What is a short sentence with banquet?
“The Anyang County police organized a banquet.”
What does banquet mean?
Banquet means a large celebratory meal; a feast.

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