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How to use regale in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Regale means a feast, a meal. Example: “Please, regale us with your best tales!”

Examples of regale by meaning

verbTo please or entertain (someone), especially with stories, tales or jokes.

  • Please, regale us with your best tales!

More sentences with regale

  • The news media regale us with horror stories about dangerous flu viruses, multidrug-resistant superbugs, and EHEC-contaminated food.2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 211. From the entry EHEC
  • “Do you regale your little student friends with every detail of our lives?2006, Kate Muir, Left Bank, Viking, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry grande madame
  • Dad sat at one end of the table, and regaled all present with his stories.2003, Brian Herbert, “Xanadu”, in Dreamer of Dune, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 259. From the entry aghast
  • After the Easter and Michaelmas law-courts more stock is killed off to regale the tenants with a dinner.2014 [1951], H. P. R. Finberg, “Chapter V: Pastoral husbandry”, in Tavistock Abbey: A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon…. From the entry hogget
  • Once in Paris, Idriss meets the unlikely aristocrat Sigisbert de Beaufond, who regales him with a desert drama of Lawrentian proportions.1999, David Platten, Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction, Liverpool, published 1999, page 150. From the entry Lawrentian
  • Their palate was still further regaled by confections and pastry, for which their maizeflour and sugar supplied ample materials.1974 [1843], William H[ickling] Prescott, “Aztec Agriculture. - Mechanical Arts. - Merchants. - Domestic Manners.”, in The World of the…. From the entry maizeflour
  • She was too wrapped up in regaling them with an amusing story from her freshman year when one of the senior girls got tired of Mr.2013, Duane L. Martin, Origins. From the entry beave
  • "You're here to set off skyrockets for Barbara Anne, not to regale us with the steam-room boffolas of Beverly Hills." "Well, I thought it was a cute story," Mr.1961, Al Hine, Lord love a duck, page 215. From the entry boffola
  • Francesca Bassington sat in the drawing-room of her house in Blue Street, W., regaling herself and her estimable brother Henry with China tea and small cress sandwiches.1912, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], chapter I, in The Unbearable Bassington, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry estimable

Meaning of regale

  1. noun A feast, a meal.
  2. noun A choice article of food or drink.
  3. noun Refreshment.

Full definition of regale

Questions about regale in a sentence

How do you use regale in a sentence?
Regale is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Please, regale us with your best tales!”
What is a short sentence with regale?
“Please, regale us with your best tales!”
What does regale mean?
Regale means a feast, a meal.

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