place mat

Example Sentences

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“I think you need to eat something,” she said, slapping the bowl onto a place mat, and she was right.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

So for almost two weeks straight, after we put away the third place mat on the dinner table, we ate out or ordered in, saving leftovers for lunch.

From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2021

The area of a rectangular place mat is 168 square inches.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

All Foxface sandwiches are presented in a trim little white box that can be unfolded into a place mat.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2019

I reach for my cell, at the edge of the place mat.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon