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
Here’s a tea towel that begs for that application, or even to be used as a place mat.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
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
There is room for bits of Shakespeare, vaudeville theatrics and road trip trivia like the paper place mat maps at Howard Johnson’s restaurants.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
So I pull out my chair, sit on it, grab my orange juice, glug it down, and thump the glass onto the place mat.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
