tableau
Example Sentences
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The surrounding landscape—a moody tableau of steel-gray skies and jagged mountains—is the work of AI.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
I present to you a familiar domestic tableau: a refrigerator door swinging open to reveal a crowd of condiments purchased for a single recipe.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026
You can feel it in the way Emily looks out her father’s window to the lake beyond, the wintery tableau both tranquil and poignant.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025
But as the company grew, marketing its locations as a tableau in which to “stay awhile” ultimately meant there was a finite number of people they could sell coffee to per day.
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2025
Quick as gunfire, Ramfis leapt to his feet and crouched between his father and our frozen tableau.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing tableau
The Diary of Anne Frank
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The Handmaid's Tale
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