banquet

The tragedy follows a similar fire in Kinshasa last weekend, where residents died in a stampede at a wedding banquet hall.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

The back doors to the main sanctuary would be open, and the banquet hall behind it would be filled with seats, going all the way up to the stage at the end of the room.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Louis, in comparison, is kinda busted — gloomy, tortured, unable to fully embrace the everlasting banquet Lestat has laid out for him.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

Leonor said her sister and brother, who co-own a banquet hall in the city of Commerce, soon lost a year’s worth of bookings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

It’s a blank, beige kind of conference room, filled with banquet tables, coffee thermoses, fruit baskets, plastic towers of cereal, tiered plate stands, and stainless steel food warmers.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

A mainland version of Chinese culture, at least in the banquets and buildings I grew up around, often needed official sanction before tradition could be revived and modernity needed to be broadcast to count.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

For the LFI's Fourreau, the banquets are "backward-looking – a caricature".

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

Describing himself as a Catholic from the impoverished aristocracy and an entrepreneur, he says it would offend against both his ethics and his business sense to exclude people from the banquets.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

Kim, absorbing North Korea’s first major combat losses in many decades, has lavished surviving families with banquets, gold medals and new Pyongyang apartments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

I loved the stories Suzanne brought back from the eating-club banquets and parties she went to, but I had no interest in bickering myself.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

He met with Lao president Bounnhang Vorachit, was feted at a welcome banqueted, where he toasted to a relationship he said would “mean greater progress and opportunity for the people of Laos”.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2016

When he left Persia he took an alleged $200,000,000 worth of jewels with him; gave an Oriental carnival for the whole town of Nice which lasted a week, and every night banqueted a thousand guests.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three football elevens who banqueted with no speakers present.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mecom was banqueted by King Hussein, in turn entertained Jordanian officials with a dinner party at the new Jerusalem Intercontinental Hotel on the Mount of Olives.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Do you forget,” he said, with actually a smile, “that last night he banqueted heavily, and will sleep late?”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

“The extravagant gifting and banqueting and entertaining that fueled one big sector of imported wine has evaporated,” said Ian Ford, founding partner of Nimbility, an Asia-based beverage consulting firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

Mythical Greek figures such as Helen of Troy are depicted on the high black walls of a large banqueting hall.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024

As photos on the academy website show, this was the last of the banqueting Oscars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

Or, oh — I want Keats, Byron, Rachel Carson, Dickens, Darwin — and, oh, I so want Churchill and, and, and — my dinner party will need a banqueting hall to fit them all in!

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2021

Marriage was the thing, or rather, a wedding was, with its formal neatness of virtue rewarded, the thrill of its pageantry and banqueting, and dizzy promise of lifelong union.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan