- present participle of seat.
seating
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Your first-class ticket could soon be second class as U.S. airlines add to their dizzying roster of seating options.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
The guidance suggests applicants for new licences should aim for "a predominantly seated operation with fixed seating", alongside waiter service replacing vertical drinking and restrictions on customers consuming alcohol while standing.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The Covent Garden street where the incident unfolded, lined with stores and outdoor seating, was cordoned off with police tape for several hours.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The British pub had prepared for months, buying televisions, modifying seating, hiring staff and creating a World Cup cocktail menu.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
I snatched up my wok as I ran into the seating area and scrambled over to the door that led to the apartment.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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Pizza Hut was so popular on opening day that the doors had to be locked in between seatings, with customers let in and out a few at a time.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
There are three or four seatings each night for a blind tasting menu of 14 to 16 courses, with optional beverage pairings.
From Salon ● May 28, 2025
With three, 10-person seatings a night, the 17-course opening menu features local seafood such as geoduck and red ocean perch and catches coming from Japan.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
That, an Herbal Chef representative told us, is about the maximum number of diners preferred for each of the two dinner seatings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
Under ordinary conditions the balls lie in depressions clear of the ways; but when a rush of steam or water occurs they are sucked into their seatings and block all egress.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams