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Example sentences for "tableau"

Lexicographically close words:
tabernacles; tabes; tabi; tabla; table; tableaux; tablecloth; tablecloths; tabled; tableful
  1. The tableau was divided into three stories; on the lower story stood earth-tillers, on a higher were officials, and on the highest was the golden throne of the pharaoh resting on two lions whose heads were the arms of the throne.

  2. At a new signal a second part of the curtain fell, and another tableau appeared, similar to the preceding in general outline.

  3. They had before them a brightly illuminated tableau in which about one hundred persons were the characters.

  4. Do you think it possible for me to have artistic thoughts when I see all at once the tableau of my miseries displayed before me as you display them?

  5. The first tableau can be rehearsed the day after to-morrow.

  6. I am surprised they allowed her to come in that tableau dress.

  7. And now came a tableau in which Anne, as the Goddess of Liberty, was poised on a barrel mounted on three tables, one above the other.

  8. This same Thames programme and tableau were enacted each of the two succeeding nights.

  9. Alice cannot forget her part in that Bombay tableau or in those lake promptings.

  10. This tragedy is only a reminiscence in London, but that horrible Bombay tableau and the mysterious disappearance of Agnes Randall can neither be forgotten nor explained.

  11. Essai sur la Geographie des Plantes, ou Tableau Physique des Regions Equinoxiales: in quarto, with a great map.

  12. Ung tableau fait apres le Roy de Dannemarcque, tenant une lettre en sa main, ayant une chemise a hault collet, pourtant la thoison d'or pendant a ung courdon de soye, le fond verd.

  13. You needn't leave any more of them alive than just enough to group into a happy tableau at the end of the last act.

  14. While King Pin, the Prince, the Professor, and the rest were arranging themselves in a happy tableau behind the second "flat" bang!

  15. Turning away from the stranger--whom I had only regarded for a second or two--I faced again to the more interesting tableau in front of me.

  16. The scene explained itself: for, at the moment of my emerging from the shadowy path, I had a tableau under my eyes, expressive as it was terrifying.

  17. On reaching the summit, and directing my telescope up the valley, I obtained a tableau in its field of vision that almost caused me to drop the glass out of my fingers!

  18. In another instant, I had within its field of vision a tableau that astonished me.

  19. The most important work of Quesnay is of the year 1758, "Tableau économique.

  20. Baudeau dedicates and explains to a lady his "Tableau Economique.

  21. It is a tableau of true love, wreathed with fraternal affection.

  22. The two, with their mules, form a tableau in front of the untenanted dwelling.

  23. The first rays of next morning's sun throw light upon a sanguinary scene--a tableau terrible, though not regrettable.

  24. For before a hand is laid on him the strange tableau fades from his sight; and death, with all its dark obliviousness, seems to take possession of his soul.

  25. Tableau of the Progress of the Human Mind.

  26. It is a delightful Parisian tableau in one of the prettiest settings of the great town.

  27. The other drawing presents a tableau vivant on a larger scale, and of a much deeper interest.

  28. Now, in the transcript of the larger tableau vivant before us--that which represents Dr.

  29. And in this transcript of the larger tableau vivant we find exactly the same phenomena.

  30. In a tableau which represented "A Slave Market," she displayed the imperial despair and the stoical dejection of a nude queen offered for sale to the first bidder.

  31. When the disc had revolved once and shown the statues on every side to the public crowded in the darkened theatre, the curtain closed again, another tableau was arranged, and the performance recommenced a moment later.

  32. In this latter work Mirabeau adopted the “Tableau économique” as the key to the subject, and classed it with the discovery of printing and of money.

  33. Quesnay’s “Tableau économique” was the Koran of the school.

  34. Gaudrey at Paris, the author of verses in praise of Mauger's Tableau du Jugement Universel.

  35. Although they saw it not from below, a strange tragical tableau was presented at the moment when these words were spoken.

  36. And soon this tableau underwent a change.

  37. While the scout on the crest of the ridge kept them warned as to the movements of the Indians, the others were busy placing the tableau that was to greet them on their return.

  38. It was but the old and oft repeated tableau of master and slave.

  39. Near them, and regarding this tableau with the utmost gravity, was a powerful-looking bull-dog, who would evidently be pure white when washed.

  40. It suggests a tableau of Venus rising from the sea.

  41. Residing at Boulogne in 1851, was a French painter named Francois Jacquand, who had obtained distinction by his pictures of monks, and "a large historical tableau representing the death chamber of the Duc d'Orleans.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tableau" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstract; abstraction; altarpiece; asbestos; backdrop; ballet; bomb; border; charade; cloth; collage; copy; counterweight; curtain; cyclorama; daub; dialogue; diorama; diptych; display; drama; drop; duologue; engraving; exhibit; exhibition; exposition; extravaganza; failure; flat; flipper; flop; fresco; hanging; happening; hit; icon; illumination; illustration; image; likeness; masque; melodrama; miniature; miracle; monologue; morality; mosaic; mural; mystery; opera; pageant; pageantry; panorama; pantomime; parade; pastoral; phantasmagoria; photograph; picture; piece; play; pomp; presentation; print; rag; representation; reproduction; review; scene; scenery; screen; scrim; serial; show; sight; sketch; skit; soap; spectacle; stencil; success; tableau; tapestry; teaser; tormentor; transformation; triptych; vaudeville; vehicle; view; wing; woodcut; work


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    tableau vivant; tableaux vivants