banquet

In the banquet scene, a pig brought in on a spit and laid on the table was suddenly replaced by Banquo, hallucinated by Macbeth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

I’d still love to invite her and Nolan and even Oates to a banquet of wine and roasted fowl and have a blast agreeing to disagree.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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

But the guard locked the banquet room door.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

The King will continue to host a range of events at the palace, from state banquets and garden parties to receptions and audiences with the prime minister and new ambassadors.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

Her party is trying to get local authorities to stop the banquets, and has had an initial success in the Brittany town of Quimper.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

It was the first in a sequence of impossibly rich and voluminous banquets whose menus raised the question of whether any of the city’s leading men could possibly have a functional artery.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

They banqueted on the bulbs as fast as the gardeners could plant them.

From Time Magazine Archive

After his installation Bishop Gorman banqueted with priests and assisting bishops.

From Time Magazine Archive

In their Roundup the Gideons made frequent devotions, lunched and banqueted, deployed to tell Boscobel churches of Gideon projects, present and future.

From Time Magazine Archive

This Sunday was to be a feast day for everyone, but more especially for the twenty-four elders, who were, that day, to be gloriously banqueted at the saints’ expense and labor.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

“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

But the Commons catering department, which oversees 27 bars, restaurants and cafes, as well as banqueting services, was subsidised by taxpayers in 2022/23 to the tune of £6.4m, according to the annual accounts.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025

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

Your banqueting young lords are here in force, I gather, from the fumes of mutton roasting and strum of harping—harping, which the gods appoint sweet friend of feasts!”

From "The Odyssey" by Homer