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
This is the dismal tableau today in Venezuela’s Maracaibo Basin, which, for much of the last century, was one of the globe’s leading sources of petroleum.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026
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
We’ve built up this idea that hosting must be an achievement, a spectacle, a tableau of labor: no shortcuts, no store-bought, no leaning on anyone.
From Salon • Dec. 2, 2025
She took one look at the tableau before her and pushed her way past Richard and his fiancée to gather up Ophie into her arms, her gaze locked on Mrs. Caruthers.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
Vocabulary lists containing tableau
The Diary of Anne Frank
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The Handmaid's Tale
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